| Descript |
xiii, 327 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Nonfiction. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-315) and index. |
| Contents |
The third relationship -- My food, my way -- More is never enough -- An infinite supply of finite resources -- Expecting more, committing less -- Science a la carte -- Becoming a market society -- The world's safest food -- The perfect formula -- Controlling nature -- Live and learn -- To lead or be led?. |
| Summary |
"Through beautifully-told stories from around the world, Kevin Walker reveals the unintended consequences of our myopic focus on quantity over quality. A trip to a Costa Rica plantation shows how the Cavendish banana became the most common fruit in the world and also one of the most vulnerable to disease. Walker’s early career in agribusiness taught him how pressure to sell more and more fertilizer obscured what that growth did to waterways. His family farm illustrates how an unquestioning belief in “free markets” undercut opportunity in his hometown. By the end of the journey, we not only understand how the drive to produce ever more food became hardwired into the American psyche, but why shifting our mindset is essential. It starts, Walker argues, with remembering that what we eat affects the wider world. If each of us decides that bigger isn’t always better, we can renegotiate the grand food bargain, one individual decision at a time." -- Amazon.com |
| Subject |
Food supply -- United States.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
1610919475 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781610919470 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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