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Foodopoly [[electronic resource] ] : the battle over the future of food and farming in America / / Wenonah Hauter



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Autore: Hauter Wenonah Visualizza persona
Titolo: Foodopoly [[electronic resource] ] : the battle over the future of food and farming in America / / Wenonah Hauter Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
Disciplina: 338.10973
Soggetto topico: Food supply - United States
Agricultural industries - United States
Agriculture - Economic aspects - United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.C., area as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Despite this, as one of the nation's leading healthy food advocates, Hauter believes that the local food movement is not enough to solve America's food crisis and the public health debacle it has created. In Foodopoly, she takes aim at the real culprit: the massive consolidation and corporate control of fo
Altri titoli varianti: Battle over the future of food and farming in America
Titolo autorizzato: Foodopoly  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-59558-794-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786067103321
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