Animal, vegetable, junk : a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal / Mark Bittman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bittman, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--United States--History.

Food habits.

Agriculture--Social aspects.

United States.

History.

Food habits--Environmental aspects--United States.

Agriculture--Social aspects--United States.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Environmental aspects--United States.

Agriculture--Environmental aspects.

Genre:

Instructional and educational works.

History.

Self-help publications.

Physical Description:

xiv, 364 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.

Summary:

"From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species--and points the way to a better future"-- Provided by publisher.

How humankind first hunted and gathered explains our emergence as a new species and our earliest technology. Our first food systems, from fire to agriculture, tell where we settled and how civilizations expanded. The quest for food for growing populations drove exploration, colonialism, slavery, even capitalism. A century ago, food was industrialized. Since then, new styles of agriculture and food production have written a new chapter of human history, one that is driving both climate change and global health crises. Bittman offers a panoramic view of the story and explains how we can rescue ourselves from the modern wrong turn. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE BIRTH OF GROWING

1. The Food-Brain Feedback Loop

2. Soil And Civilization

3. Agriculture Goes Global

4. Creating Famine

5. The American Way Of Farming

pt. II THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

6. The Farm As Factory

7. Dust And Depression

8. Food And The Brand

9. Vitamania And "The Farm Problem"

10. Soy, Chicken, And Cholesterol

11. Force-Feeding Junk

12. The So-Called Green Revolution

pt. III CHANGE

13. The Resistance

14. Where We're At

15. The Way Forward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bittman, Mark. Animal, vegetable, junk

ISBN:

9781328974624

1328974626

OCLC:

1184122217

Publisher Number:

99986513599