Diet For A Dead Planet: How The Food Industry Is Killing Us - Couverture rigide

Cook, Christopher D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1565848640 ISBN 13 : 9781565848641

Editeur : The New Press, 2004

Synopsis

If we are what we eat, then, as Chris Cook contends in this powerful look at the food industry, we are not in good shape. Mad Cow disease, bird flu epidemics, tainted meat scandals, and Mercury-laced fish - we are evidently surrounded by unsafe food. The planet itself is at risk from today's farming practices. "Diet for a Dead Planet", now available in paperback, takes us beyond Fast Food Nation to explain why our entire food system is in crisis. Corporate control of farms and supermarkets, unsustainable drives to increase agribusiness productivity and profits, misplaced subsidies for exports, and anaemic regulation have all combined to produce a grim harvest. Food, our most basic necessity, has become a force behind a staggering array of social, economic, and environmental epidemics. Yet there is another way. Cook argues cogently for a whole new way of looking at what we eat - one that places healthy, sustainably-produced food at the top of the menu for a change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher D. Cook is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work has appeared in Harper's, Mother Jones, the Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, and The Economist. In 1998 he won an Aronson Award for an investigative report on welfare agencies requiring recipients to work in dangerous meatpacking plants. Among other honours, he has been a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a two-time finalist for a Livingston Award. He lives in San Francisco, CA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The New Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1565848640
• ISBN 13: 9781565848641
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
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