Diet For A Dead Planet

Name: Diet For A Dead Planet
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Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis

Christopher Cook, Christopher Cook

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English

New Press
05 September 2006

Society & Social Sciences; Agriculture & related industries; Food manufacturing & related industries

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 productivity and profits, misplaced subsidies for exports, and anemic regulation have all combined to produce a grim harvest. Food, our most basic necessity, has become a force behind a staggering array of social, economic, and environmental epidemics.

Yet there is another way. Cook argues cogently for a whole new way of looking at what we eat-one that places healthy, sustainably produced food at the top of the menu for change. In the words of Jim Hightower, ""If you eat, read this important book!""

By: Christopher Cook, Christopher Cook
Imprint: New Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 189mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 343g
ISBN: 9781595580849
ISBN 10: 1595580840
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 05 September 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher D. Cook is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work has appeared in Harper's, Mother Jones, the Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, and The Economist. In 1998 he won an Aronson Award for an investigative report on welfare agencies requiring recipients to work in dangerous meatpacking plants. Among other honours, he has been a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a two-time finalist for a Livingston Award. He lives in San Francisco, CA.

Reviews for Diet For A Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis

"""It is worth considering how [Christopher Cook's] concerns apply to leafy green Ireland."" - IRISH INDEPENDENT ""Cook takes care to avoid blind alleys in order to argue for a genuinely sustainable system of making, distributing and marketing food... In calling for profound change Cook recognises the enormity of the challenge involved."" - THE HERALD ""A comprehensive expose of the food industry that underlines the urgency of the need for change."" - SOCIALIST REVIEW"""