I read the book based upon hearing a brief radio interview with the author on CBC. The shocking part of the entire book and the interview is that it appears no one is listening. Pawlick has so many logical points, research data and historical information to back-up his arguments, but, it appears until this book reaches the best seller list and a fifth printing nothing will happen.
I found it hard to swallow my fried chicken. Even harder to pay the price demanded for the fresh vegetables in the store. Pawlick got it right when he prompted me with "What you can do about it". I decided to change somethings. I bought free run eggs this week. I bought organic fruit and currently I'm looking for a farmer - a real farmer - to buy my chicken and beef. I encourage everyone to read this book and decide for yourself it it makes sense. Then do something about it.

If, like me, you've ever wondered why the fruits and vegetables in your local mega-supermarket seem different because they are too red (or green, or yellow), too large, too perfect looking and lack flavour, the answers are in Pawlick's book. Here is a practical and edifying account of how the practices of traditional farming have given way to corporate farming practices that allow manipulation and abuse of science in order to make a buck.

While there is no scarcity of books available that reveal the machinations inherent in the development of corporate greed Pawlick does more than this and brings together a myriad of elements to illustrate the relationship that's created the problem with our food. These elements include: laws and regulations in a given country, governments, free trade deals, past historical practices, corporate businesses, and the process that large scale farming operations follow, to name a few, in order to illustrate the free-fall disaster that we are now experiencing with our farmed food.

I found the book filled with examples galore, well cited sources and tips, resources and solutions on what we can do individually and/or communally about this alarming problem of the degradation of our food, including meat and poultry. Unlike the other solutions that Pawlick suggests we can do to help protect our food, I'm writing this review as a first step towards fighting back. My aim is to encourage those readers who like me, want an answer to the question, what-the-heck is going on with the food we buy at the supermarket, to read the book. The End of Food is about educating the public and fighting the good fight in trying to protect what's left of the nutritional value we expect our food to provide us.

The End of Food is a biting portent of what lies within and behind, the food we eat. It is a gripping pandect that serves up the unrestrained modus operandi of the corporate food industry and its mutant machinations. This unfettered monster, as it turns out is the misbegotten progeny of a grotesque tryst of Machiavelli and the bride of Frankenstein. Make no mistake: The food you eat is true to life horror. It may well be the main course of advanced capitalism; its crippled logic, its fatal flaw and its poison served up as a nauseating entrée of steaming you-know-what. And if that doesn’t kill you this will: This stealthy vampire, as it turns out; has slipped in unnoticed with a poisonous drip while we have slept the sound sleep of so many fools. This creature has literally bled the life from the food we eat! The End of Food is a bitter pill and a significant wake up call. Buy it, borrow it or otherwise appropriate it. Just read it before it is too late. Because as it turns out, those doggone dogmatists were right all along – mastication can cause physical deformity and if it goes on too long, even death!