3.0
informative slow-paced

For me this book was just okay. It was informative, and some of the deep dives (ex: Trader Joe's' history and how new brands get into stores (basically paying a grocery store tribute) were very interesting. Some were disgusting (ewww fish counters are awful), and others were enraging. At the end of the book, the author covers the issue of slavery in the modern shrimping and fishing industries. This is a thing so many people don't know about, so I was happy to see it there. He literally gets to know a man who was enslaved for several years on a shrimp boat in Thailand...and then he goes on to be like "but it's not like people are going to stop eating shrimp, every industry abuses people." Shrugging off the idea of knowing whether your food comes from slave labor is the worst take I've read in a long time, and I was really frustrated with how easily the author decided to let himself and readers off the hook.