I threw out some pieces of bread the other day for the birds (I had originally put it out to entice the mouse out from behind the wall). Today I realised that no bird had touched it and also recalled that, although the mouse must have been very hungry, it had also not taken a crumb. There is also no sign of mould although the bread is at least five days old. Surely if the birds don't eat it, we shouldn't either?
I looked at the ingredients and found that, as with all our soybean flour and perhaps other soya products, this ingredient is genetically modified, something which is increasingly being banned around the world for health reasons, while here it seems we are unable to have a say in what we grow and eat. There is almost no processed product which is free of this GM ingredient. The blurb on the wrapper says that we can still enjoy the bread they made in 1930. I doubt it.
The fat portion is stated as palm fruit and other vegetable fat and various other preservatives, flavour enhancers and enzymes are added. No wonder the bread lasts so long, doesn't have any texture, squashes paper-thin when making a toasted sandwich and can't form crumbs. When could you last crumble a piece of day-old bread for use in meatballs or puddings?
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Perhaps we should learn from the birds.
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