Bet the farm : how food stopped being food
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Published
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2012].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
vi, 266 pages ; 23 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
338.1 Kau
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338.1 Kau
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Published
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2012].
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
Investigates the hidden connection between global food and global finance by asking the simple question: Why can't delicious, inexpensive, and healthy food be available to everyone on Earth? Reveals that money pouring into the global derivatives market in grain futures is having astonishing consequences that reach far beyond your dinner table, including the Arab Spring, bankrupt farmers, starving masses, and armies of scientists creating new GMO foods with U.S. marketing and shipping needs in mind instead of global nutrition. Our food is getting less healthy, less delicious, and more expensive even as the world's biggest food companies and food scientists say things are better than ever and that the rest of us should leave it to them to feed the world.Readers of Bet the Farm will glimpse the power behind global food and understand what truly supports the system that has brought mass misery to our planet.
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