Overview
- The most comprehensive account of the consequences of the modern food system on life, health, and the environment
- tailored for the general reader
- Conveys a sweeping history of our relationship with food through compelling stories.
- The author offers unique insights from a long and varied career in food, from agribusiness to government
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Taking Stock
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Forces Driving More
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Unexpected Consequences
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Decisions You’ll Make
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About this book
When it comes to food, Americans seem to have a pretty great deal. Our grocery stores are overflowing with countless varieties of convenient products. But like most bargains that are too good to be true, the modern food system relies on an illusion. It depends on endless abundance, but the planet has its limits.
Through beautifully‑told stories from around the world, Kevin Walker reveals the unintended consequences of our myopic focus on quantity over quality. By the end of the journey, we not only understand how the drive to produce ever more food became hardwired into the American psyche, but why shifting our mindset is essential.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Grand Food Bargain
Book Subtitle: and the Mindless Drive for More
Authors: Kevin D. Walker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-948-7
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Kevin D. Walker 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-948-7Published: 25 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 327
Topics: Agriculture, Food Science, Nutrition, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Popular Social Sciences