The neoliberal diet : healthy profits, unhealthy people / Gerardo Otero.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Otero, Gerardo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Food industry and trade--Social aspects.
• Food industry and trade--Political aspects.
• Produce trade--Government policy.
• Obesity--Social aspects.
• Food supply--Social aspects.
• Food preferences--Economic aspects.
• Neoliberalism.
• Globalization.
• Food preferences.
• Food supply.
• Food industry and trade.

Physical Description:

xvi, 238 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.

Contents:

• Introduction : obesity and the neoliberal diet
• The neoliberal food regime and its crisis : the dynamic factors
• Neoregulation of agricultural biotechnology at the national and suprastate scales
• Food and inequality in the United States
• Class diets in the NAFTA region: divergence or convergence?
• NAFTA, agriculture, and work : Mexico's loss of food and labor sovereignty
• Globalizing the neoliberal diet: food security and trade
• Food security, obesity, and inequality: measuring the risk of exposure to the neoliberal diet
• Conclusion : what is to be done?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781477316979
• 1477316973
• 9781477316986
• 1477316981

OCLC:

1023815623