Foodopoly : the battle over the future of food and farming in America / Wenonah Hauter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hauter, Wenonah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--United States.

Food supply.

Agricultural industries--United States.

Agricultural industries.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Other Title:

Battle over the future of food and farming in America

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of Food & Water Watch, but she also runs an organic family farm in Northern Virginia that provides healthy vegetables to over five hundred families in the Washington, D.C., area as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Despite this, as one of the nation's leading healthy food advocates, 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 massive consolidation and corporate control of fo

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Farm and Food Policy Run Amok; Chapter 1: Get Those Boys Off the Farm!; PART II Consolidationg Every Link in the Food Choice; Chapter 2 The Junk Food Pushers; Chapter 3 Walmarting the Food Chain; PART III The Produce and Organics Industries: Putting Profits Before People; Chapter 4 The Green Giant Doesn't Live in California Anymore; Chapter 5 Organic Food: The Paradox; PART IV Deregulating Food Safety; Chapter 6 Poisoning People; Chapter 7 Animals on Drugs; PART V The Story of Factory Farms; Chapter 8 Cowboys Versus Meatpackers: The Last Roundup

Chaper 9 Hogging the ProfitsChapter 10 Modern-Day Serfs; Chapter 11 Milking the System; PART VI Corporate Control of the Gene Pool: The Theft of Life; Chaper 12 Life for Sale: The Birth of Life Science Companies; Chapter 13 David Versus Goliath; Chapter 14 The Future of Food: Science Fiction or Nature?; PART VII Building the Political Power to Challenge the Foodopoly; Chapter 15 Eat and Act Your Politics; Chapter 16 The Way Forward; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781595587947

1595587942

OCLC:

822667187