A review by mari_books
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I listened to the audio book, which I think kept me far more interested than I would have been in the book itself. Great journalism, and I appreciated how he took the reader through various stages in the grocery processes. My only critique is that right here in the US we have agricultural slavery, abuses and a migrant crisis - I would have loved to see the author look into for example strawberries instead of Thailand (though I was very interested in that story as well). Additionally, the author sometimes used pretty unflattering descriptions for their subjects which I felt to be kind of unneeded and a weird pot-shot at times. I don’t know if I would recommend this to anyone but it was good, nothing super unique I have to say 
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