With an insightful global approach, Paul Roberts investigates the startling truth about the way we make, market, consume, and even think about food, and how this system is no longer compatible or safe for the billions of consumers that it was built to serve. The emergence of large-scale and efficient food production changed forever our relationship with food and ultimately left a vulnerable and paradoxical system in place. Over 1.1 billion people worldwide are 'over-nourished,' according to the World Health Organization, ...
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With an insightful global approach, Paul Roberts investigates the startling truth about the way we make, market, consume, and even think about food, and how this system is no longer compatible or safe for the billions of consumers that it was built to serve. The emergence of large-scale and efficient food production changed forever our relationship with food and ultimately left a vulnerable and paradoxical system in place. Over 1.1 billion people worldwide are 'over-nourished,' according to the World Health Organization, and are at risk of obesity-related illness, while roughly as many people are starving. Meanwhile, the natural systems all food is dependent upon have been irreparably damaged by chemicals and destructive farming techniques.The pressures of low-cost food production cause contamination and disease, and big food consumers such as China and India are already planning for tightened global food supplies - the era of superabundance seems to be behind us. Vivid descriptions, lucid explanations, and fresh thinking make "The End of Food" uniquely able to offer a new and accessible way to understand the vulnerable miracle of the modern food economy. Roberts presents clear, stark visions of the future and helps us identify the decisions both personal and global that we must make to survive the demise of food production as we know it.
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 400 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2009417512 Type of material Book Personal name Roberts, Paul, 1961 August 2-Main title The end of food / Paul Roberts. Edition 1st Mariner Books ed. Published/Created Boston: Mariner Books, 2008. Description xxvi, 400 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780547085975 (pbk. ) LC classification HD9000.5. R578 2008 Contents Starving for progress--It's so easy now--Buy one, get one free--Tipping the scales--Eating for strength--The end of hunger--We are what we eat--In the long run--Magic pills--Food fight--Epilogue: Nouvelle cuisine. Subjects Food supply. Nutrition. Food industry and trade--Environmental aspects. Food industry and trade--Social aspects. Nutrition policy. Notes "With a new afterword"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-375) and index. Dewey class no. 363.8
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