'We may find in the long run
that tinned food is a deadlier weapon
than the machine gun'-George Orwell.
Quoted from 'The Road to Wigan Pier' (1937).
What he meant was.....
1-The Great War (1914-18) would be have been impossible
without tinned processed food being sent to the troops
at the front by every participating government.
2-The mechanization that makes armaments easier to produce,
and wars easier to fight, when applied to food production,
will reduce the varieties of fruit and veg that are grown
to those with least flavour which also keep/travel best,
the easier to go to war on the once sensitive human palate.
3-When 'marketed well', food processed with chemicals
and false flavourings will prove themselves to be more popular
and more poisonous than fresh fruit and veg in the longer term.
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