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Hauter Wenonah |
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Foodopoly [[electronic resource] ] : the battle over the future of food and farming in America / / Wenonah Hauter |
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New York, : New Press, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (369 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Food supply - United States |
Agricultural industries - United States |
Agriculture - Economic aspects - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Farm and Food Policy Run Amok; Chapter 1: Get Those Boys Off the Farm!; PART II Consolidationg Every Link in the Food Choice; Chapter 2 The Junk Food Pushers; Chapter 3 Walmarting the Food Chain; PART III The Produce and Organics Industries: Putting Profits Before People; Chapter 4 The Green Giant Doesn't Live in California Anymore; Chapter 5 Organic Food: The Paradox; PART IV Deregulating Food Safety; Chapter 6 Poisoning People; Chapter 7 Animals on Drugs; PART V The Story of Factory Farms; Chapter 8 Cowboys Versus Meatpackers: The Last Roundup |
Chaper 9 Hogging the ProfitsChapter 10 Modern-Day Serfs; Chapter 11 Milking the System; PART VI Corporate Control of the Gene Pool: The Theft of Life; Chaper 12 Life for Sale: The Birth of Life Science Companies; Chapter 13 David Versus Goliath; Chapter 14 The Future of Food: Science Fiction or Nature?; PART VII Building the Political Power to Challenge the Foodopoly; Chapter 15 Eat and Act Your Politics; Chapter 16 The Way Forward; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of Food & Water Watch, but she also runs an organic family farm in Northern Virginia that provides healthy vegetables to over five hundred families in the Washington, D. |
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