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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795186503321

Autore

Haydu Jeffrey

Titolo

Upsetting food : three eras of food protest in the United States / / Jeffrey Haydu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Temple University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-4399-2092-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 pages)

Disciplina

363.80973

Soggetti

Food industry and trade - Social aspects - United States

Health attitudes - United States - History

Natural foods - Social aspects - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Food politics: one movement, or many? -- Grahamites, 1830s-1840s -- Food progressives, 1890-1906 -- Organic food, 1960-1990 -- Comparing pasts and present.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book compares three food reform movements-Sylvester Graham's diet reform, John Harvey Kellogg's push for home economics, and the organic food movement of the 1960s and 1970s-to probe continuing consumer mistrust over the safety, nutrition, and 'naturalness' of food in the face of corporate technology"--