A timely indictment of industrial agriculture's threat to the future of food, health, and the environment.If we are what we eat, then, as Christopher D. Cook contends in this powerful look at the food industry, we are not in good shape. The facts speak for themselves: more than 75 million Americans suffered from food poisoning last year, and 5,000 of them died; 67 percent of American males are overweight, obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States and supersizing is just the tip of the iceberg: the way we make and eat food today is putting our environment and the very future of food at risk.Diet for a Dead Planet takes us beyond Fast Food Nation to show how our entire food system is in crisis. Corporate control of farms and supermarkets, unsustainable drives to increase agribusiness
Diet for a Dead Planet
- 作者： Cook, Christopher D.
- 出版社： New Pr
- 出版日期： 2006-05-29
- ISBN碼： 9781595580849
- 編號： 203c109197768
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