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A Next Big Idea Club must-read selection From the bestselling author of How the World Thinks, an exploration of how we grow, make, buy and eat our food around the world - and a proposal for a global philosophy of food.. How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world, such as the hunter-gatherer Hadza in Tanzania whose sustainable lifestyle is under threat in a crowded planet, or Western societies whose food is farmed or bred in vast intensive enterprises. And most of us now rely on a complex global food web of production, distribution, consumption and disposal, which is now contending with unprecedented challenges. The need for a better understanding of how we feed ourselves has never been more urgent.
About the Author
Dr Julian Baggini is the author, co-author or editor of over 20 books including The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well (Princeton University Press) , The Godless Gospel, How The World Thinks, The Virtues of the Table and The Ego Trick (all Granta) and The Edge of Reason (Yale University Press) . He was the founding editor of The Philosophers' Magazine and has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, as well as for the think tanks The Institute of Public Policy Research, Demos and Counterpoint. He is Academic Director of the Royal institute of Philosophy and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent. His website is JulianBaggini.com
