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Animal, vegetable, junk : a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal

Animal, vegetable, junk : a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal

Bittman, Mark, author.
Book 2022

From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultra-processed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species and points the way to a better future. The history of Homo sapiens is usually told as a story of technology or economics. But there is a more fundamental driver: food. How we hunted and gathered explains our emergence as a new species and our earliest technology; our first food systems, from fire to agriculture, tel...

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ISBN:
9780358645528
Edition:
First Mariner Books paperback [edition]
Description:
xiv, 370 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2021 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt" -- title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-349) and index
Contents:
Part 1. The birth of growing
The food-brain feedback loop
Soil and civilization
Agriculture goes global
Creating famine
The American way of farming
Part 2. The twentieth century
The farm as factory
Dust and depression
Food and the brand
Vitamania and "the farm problem"
Soy, chicken, and cholesterol
Force-feeding junk
The so-called green revolution
Part 3. Change
The resistance
Where we're at
The way forward
Conclusion : we are all eaters
Control Number:
3303047
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