Seeds of Resistance (eBook)

The Fight to Save Our Food Supply

Mark Schapiro (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
192 Seiten
Hot Books (Verlag)
978-1-5107-0580-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Sun. Soil. Water. Seed. These are the primordial ingredients for the most essential activity of all on earth: growing food. All of these elements are being changed dramatically under the pressures of corporate consolidation of the food chain, which has been accelerating just as climate change is profoundly altering the conditions for growing food. In the midst of this global crisis, the fate of our food has slipped into a handful of the worlds largest companies. Food Chained will bring home what this corporate stranglehold is doing to our daily diet, from the explosion of genetically modified foods to the rapid disappearance of plant varieties to the elimination of independent farmers who have long been the bedrock of our food supply.Food Chained will touch many nerves for readers, including concerns about climate change, chronic drought in essential farm states like California, the persistence of the junk food culture, the proliferation of GMOs, and the alarming domination of the seed market and our very life cycle by global giants like Monsanto.But not all is bleak when it comes to the future of our food supply. Food Chained will also present hopeful stories about farmers, consumer groups, and government agencies around the world that are resisting the tightening corporate squeeze on our food chain.

Autor

Mark Schapiro has won numerous journalism prizes for his investigative work, including the duPont-Columbia University Award. He is the author of two widely praised books on urgent environmental issues, Carbon Shock and Exposed. His articles have been published in the Atlantic, Harper’s, Mother Jones, Pacific Standard, and The Nation, and his documentary work has been featured on PBS’s Frontline. He is a Lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.9.2018
• Vorwort: David Talbot
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
• Schlagworte: american diet • american food corn syrup • avoid eating • avoid food • avoid processed • baby formula • dietary advice • eater's manifesto • eat foods • eating food • Eugenics movement • fake food • Farmers Market • Food Allergies • food diet • Food habits • FOOD Inc • food industry • food-like substances • foodlike substances • food manufacturers • Food Processing • Food products • food related • food rules • food science • food scientists • food situation • Food System • fructose corn • Government Agencies • grass fed highly processed • Green Revolution • growth hormones • Health Claims • health fads • health nut • health reasons • high-fructose corn • home cooked • human food • individual nutrients • Industrial Agriculture • industrial complex • industrial food • Interest Groups • journalist michael • junk science • middle aisles • modern food • modified foods • modified organisms • nutritional advice • nutritional science • Nutrition Science • obesity epidemic • organic produce • pollan argues • pollan's advice • refined carbohydrates • related health • traditional diets • western diet • World Population
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-0580-5 / 1510705805
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-0580-7 / 9781510705807