Fast Food: A Love Story Offers Up More Than A Morsel To Dine Out On

Online, August 26, 2011 (Newswire.com) - WORLDbytes, the online citizen TV channel, has launched this short film as part of its latest line up of programmes this week.

London has a love-hate relationship with fast food. Public health campaigns and celebrity chefs vilify it and warn it could kill us; yet, as this film shows, we've never had it so good. It shows how we fell in love with fast food when rationing ended and many more of us were exposed to great food through cheap package holidays whilst immigrants opened restaurants and takeaways that have made London the gastronomic capital of the world.

Special emphasis is made on the evolution and importance of supermarkets. Interviewing Rob Lyons, author of Panic on a Plate at a Tesco Extra, Rob Lyons, tells us how supermarkets have enabled more people to be fed more inexpensively, conveniently and well. He debunks the negative press fast food and supermarkets often receive; from pointing out how tomato ketchup "is in many ways more nutritious than, for example, apples" to the myth that mass production and packaged food is evil as they have been "part of the liberation of women, the freedom they have is because of supermarkets and industrial food and convenience food" meaning they no longer have to stay at home.

The report "Fast Food: A Love Story" is available to watch on WORLDbytes at: http://www.worldbytes.org/fast-food-a-love-story/
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