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Vitamin Murders James Fergusson

Vitamin Murders By James Fergusson

Vitamin Murders by James Fergusson


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Summary

Could the man who named Vitamin A and Vitamin B have saved the Englishman's food? Suitable for readers of issue-led narrative non-fiction, Start-the-Week listeners, gardeners, farmers, organic food shoppers, this work features a tale of unsolved murder, industrial espionage, chemical contamination and dietary disaster.

Vitamin Murders Summary

Vitamin Murders by James Fergusson

This is a punchy non-fiction expose from a top-ten author that does for the food industry what "The Constant Gardener" did for pharmaceuticals - a tale of unsolved murder, industrial espionage, chemical contamination and dietary disaster.Readers of issue-led narrative non-fiction, Start-the-Week listeners, gardeners, farmers, organic food shoppers, fans of "Not on the Label" by Felicity Lawrence, Richard Benson's "The Farm", Jamie Oliver's "Schools Campaign" and "Shopped" by Joanna Blythman.Dashing out of the maternity hospital clutching his first-born tight, James Fergusson felt that universal urge to protect his child from the world. However, from all he'd found out in the preceding months, he also knew that the battle for his daughter's dietary health was already all but lost. James discovers that back during WWII, against all the odds, the besieged Britons ate better, nutritionally, than ever they had before or since. And one man was responsible for keeping the country fit to fight the Nazis: Sir Jack Drummond, Churchill's Chief Food Scientist, a hero in his time, unjustly forgotten now. Could the man who named Vitamin A and Vitamin B have saved the Englishman's food? Might James' daughter have had a less contaminated beginning in life? Curious as much about the career and legacy of the remarkable Drummond as about his own family's chemical cocktail, Fergusson sets off for la France profonde to find out what we have lost.

About James Fergusson

James Fergusson has written for many newspapers, covering current affairs in Europe, North Africa, Asia and elsewhere. His first book was the critically-acclaimed Kandahar Cockney (2004).

Additional information

GOR001791167
9781846270147
1846270146
Vitamin Murders by James Fergusson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Granta Books
2007-06-14
272
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