Gluten: Public Enemy?
Wheat, a dietary staple since the dawn of civilization, faces rising scrutiny for substandard products as unsafe farming practices with harmful pesticides, cost-cutting by food companies, oligopolistic control, and corrupt regulatory practices driven by financial gain contribute to tainted food. This fuels a growing anti-wheat sentiment along with efforts to uncover and remedy the root causes.
Wheat, a dietary staple since the dawn of civilization, faces rising scrutiny for substandard products as unsafe farming practices with harmful pesticides, cost-cutting by food companies, oligopolistic control, and corrupt regulatory practices driven by financial gain contribute to tainted food. This fuels a growing anti-wheat sentiment along with efforts to uncover and remedy the root causes.
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