Fixing the Food System
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4408-4370-9 (ISBN)
Many believe that America's food system is in dire need of reform, with concerns ranging from the obesity epidemic to exploitative labor practices and negative environmental impact. This eye-opening book answers provocative questions about what changes are needed, who is advocating the changes, what parties are opposing these changes (and why), and what a new food system would look like. Organized into three sections, the work identifies the problems with the current system, reviews the changing landscape of food policy, and suggests workable solutions for progress.
Washington insider Steve Clapp takes a comprehensive look at the struggle over the future of food. He examines the vision for a reformed national food policy that includes calculating the true cost of food, providing universal access to healthful food, adopting farm policies supporting public health and environmental objectives, improving food safety, paying fair wages to food employees, treating food animals with compassion, and reducing the food system's carbon footprint. The book explores the ways in which these issues can be resolved, drawing upon lessons learned from the early food advocates of the 1960s and 1970s.
Steve Clapp has covered food policy in Washington, DC, for more than 40 years. Formerly, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in northern Nigeria and worked in the Office of Inspection in the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity.
Foreword by Marion Nestle
Preface
Acronyms
Part I A Broken Food System
Chapter One Toward a National Food Policy
Chapter Two The Real Cost of Food
Chapter Three The Unfinished Business of Food Safety
Chapter Four Dietary Guidelines Become Fierce Battleground
Chapter Five Marketing to Children in School and Out
Chapter Six Hunger in a Wealthy Society
Part II Emergence of Consumer Advocates
Chapter Seven Landscape Shift in Food Advocacy
Chapter Eight Transforming the U.S. Agriculture Department
Chapter Nine Churches, Newspapers, and Universities Get Involved
Part III Problems Can Be Solved
Chapter Ten The End of Food as We Know It
Chapter Eleven Some of the Worst Jobs in America
Chapter Twelve Treatment of Food Animals
Chapter Thirteen Food Advocacy Changes America
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.12.2016 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Marion Nestle |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 595 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
| Technik | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4408-4370-8 / 1440843708 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4408-4370-9 / 9781440843709 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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