Category Archives: food from where?

A Long Time in Food

Absence Still from Our Daily Bread – spraying sunflowers Loyal visitors to the Tracing Paper will have noticed a distinct lack of activity over most of the last year. I’m ashamed that I only just avoided a clear six month hiatus with a (very) brief post about the superb documentary on the modern food industry, [...]

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Our Daily Bread: A Taster

Update – Our Daily Bread is now available on DVD in the UK Our Daily Bread is a film about the modern food industry that’s been described as “The 2001: A Space Odyssey of modern food production”, despite its direct depiction of the truth behind the food we eat. Shot without any commentary, director Nikolaus [...]

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Understanding identification marks

To decode your food, use The Tracing Paper’s Food Tracer – a searchable list of all UK identification codes. What are those oval codes? If you buy meat – or fish, milk, cheese or any food produced from or by an animal – in the European Union, you should find an oval symbol like this [...]

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