Grant us our daily bread -- but NOT from Lidl!

After reading this investigative article about how rolls are made in Germany's weekly intellectual newspaper Die Zeit (think New Yorker, only in newsprint format), I will never buy another vacuum-packed Brötchen from Lidl again...

Essentially, the article reports how the machines that bake them cannot be thoroughly cleaned and the workers are treated so poorly that injuries are viewed as 'part of the job'. Mold grows on the machines and people are demoralized.

That's all I needed to know.

Comments

[Cindi]

Oh my! It is amazing what we don't know about what we eat!
They just did a report in the Metro area where I live. They test the lemon slices that go in ice tea. Most of the restaurants tested positive for bacteria growing from the lemon samples. The workers weren't washing their hands after using the restroom and then slicing the lemon wedges. Cindi