Now, how fresh is your meat?

The Advertiser: Now, how fresh is your meat? :

"The process, known as 'gas flushing', makes meat appear redder - a colour consumers associate with freshness -- while also extending its shelf life. Meat can sit in 'modified atmosphere packaging' - filled with a mix of oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen - for up to four weeks with little benefit to taste or tenderness, experts say."

So what happened to fresh food??? Have we got a moratorium on it or something or are we doing studies in how sub standard food affects human behaviour and performance?? Bleached lettuce, gassed meat, year old fruit and vegies...what other nasties have they got hidden?? Okay, so how old are the eggs? What about our bread?? One of the cafes I was in, in town today, had the chef preparing the dough and bread right in front of my very eyes. Apart from the fact it was a very soothing thing to watch...we were assured the bread we ate in that place was carefully prepared. I want FRESH food, people!! Go and get those grapes off those vines before they are left to rot and dry some of them, get them into the shops NOW. I dare us to actually get fresh food on our shelves...and if I have to eat grapes everyday until they are gone I'll do that rather than eat year old apples.