The End of Food - Rilegato

Roberts, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0618606238 ISBN 13: 9780618606238

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008

Riassunto

The best-selling author of The End of Oil takes a close-up look at the modern food system to reveal how we maket, market, and consume food and how this has led to inequities in the global market, analyzing the dangerous impact of chemicals and destructive farming techniques, food contamination, and disease, as well as what needs to be done to address the situation before it is too late.

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Recensione:

An indispensable book. . .the best analysis of the global food economy you are likely to find.—Michael Pollan
Everyone's got to eat, and this spellbinding book makes it clear why that may be a problem.—Bill McKibben

L'autore:

Paul Roberts is the author of The End of Oil, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award in 2005. He has written about resource economics and politics for numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Rolling Stone, and lectures frequently on business and environmental issues. He lives in Washington State.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0618606238
• ISBN 13: 9780618606238
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 390