Panic on a plate : how society developed and eating disorder / Rob Lyons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyons, Rob.

Series:

Societas, 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Junk food.

Convenience foods.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Luton, U.K.] : Andrews U.K. Ltd., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Food in Britain today is more plentiful, more nutritious, more varied, and much more affordable than ever in our history. This is something to celebrate, and Rob Lyons does exactly that. In a series of short up-beat chapters he challenges head on the fashionable critics of so-called junk food and the ""wacky world"" of organic and locally-sourced food campaigners. They have created needless panic and made our cheap and tasty food an object of shame and blame, when it should be a cause for rejo...

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Body Matter; How has our food changed?; The myth of junk food; Good food, bad food; Fat chance: The obesity panic; Schooled in food panics; A smorgasbord of panics; Eating the planet; The wacky world of organic food; An alternative to food fears; Afterword: The German E. coli outbreak; Back Matter; Also Available; _Ref298428429

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-44540-9

9786613445407

1-84540-301-0

OCLC:

769344445