Bite Back : People Taking On Corporate Food and Winning / Kathryn De Master, Saru Jayaraman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Master, Kathryn, Editor.

Jayaraman, Saru, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security--United States.

Food security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The food system is broken, but there is a revolution underway to fix it. Bite Back presents an urgent call to action and a vision for disrupting corporate power in the food system, a vision shared with countless organizers and advocates worldwide. In this provocative and inspiring new book, editors Saru Jayaraman and Kathryn De Master bring together leading experts and activists who are challenging corporate power by addressing injustices in our food system, from wage inequality to environmental destruction to corporate bullying.In paired chapters, authors present a problem arising from corporate control of the food system and then recount how an organizing campaign successfully tackled it. This unique solutions-oriented book allows readers to explore the core contemporary challenges embedded in our food system and learn how we can push back against corporate greed to benefit workers and consumers everywhere.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

How Corporations Control Our Seeds

Taking Back Our Seeds

Pesticide Purveyors and Corporate Power

Drift Catchers Combatting Pesticide Power

Devil’s Bargain: Fractured Farms or Freedom?

Food and Water over Fracking

Food Workers versus Food Giants

Food Workers Taking On Goliath

Fast Food Embodied: Industrial Diets

Moving a McMountain

Hunger Incorporated: Who Benefits from Anti-Hunger Efforts?

Progress over Poverty through Political Power

The Corporate Stock in Trade

Food Sovereignty in Japan and Beyond

Conclusion: Stand Up, Bite Back

Afterword: Taking Action to Create Change

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780520964051

0520964055

OCLC:

1123181954