Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America“A meticulously researched tour de force” on politics, big agriculture, and the need to go beyond farmers’ markets to find fixes (Publishers Weekly). Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet, as a leading healthy-food advocate, Hauter believes that the local food movement is not enough to solve America’s food crisis and the public health debacle it has created. In Foodopoly, she takes aim at the real culprit: the control of food production by a handful of large corporations—backed by political clout—that prevents farmers from raising healthy crops and limits the choices people can make in the grocery store. Blending history, reporting, and a deep understanding of farming and food production, Foodopoly is a shocking, revealing account of the business behind the meat, vegetables, grains, and milk most Americans eat every day, including some of our favorite and most respected organic and health-conscious brands. Hauter also pulls the curtain back from the little-understood but vital realm of agricultural policy, showing how it has been hijacked by lobbyists, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of the likes of Cargill, Tyson, Kraft, and ConAgra. Foodopoly shows how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic stagnation in rural communities to famines overseas, and argues that solving this crisis will require a complete structural shift—a change that is about politics, not just personal choice. |
Contents
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The Produce and Organics Industries Putting Profits Before People | |
Deregulating Food Safety | |
The Story of Factory Farms | |
Corporate Control of the Gene Pool The Theft of Life | |
Building the Political Power to Challenge the Foodopoly | |
Other editions - View all
Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America Wenonah Hauter Limited preview - 2012 |
Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America Wenonah Hauter No preview available - 2014 |
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