Milk in Spain and the history of diet change : the political economy of dairy consumption since 1950 / Fernando. Collantes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collantes, Fernando, author.

Series:

Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations.

Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dairy products industry.

Diet.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

In barely three generations the Spanish diet has changed beyond recognition. The traditional concerns around nutritional health and scarcity have been mostly left behind, but they have given way to new problems linked to excess. In this book Fernando Collantes shows how the dairy industry has been central to this societal shift. From widespread calcium deficiency in the 1950s to the more recent, and controversial, turn to highly processed foods, it provides a recent history of diet change in Spain. Probing the reasons behind why this shift has occurred, and how, it shows that when it comes to food society, politics, economics and the law are intrinsically linked. Taking the reader beyond the world of food, Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change combines qualitative and quantitative methods to position diet change within the broader debate on consumer society and 'the good life'. Contrasting two models of food consumption, it shows that unless public policy takes the challenge of affluence seriously, the food system can become an obstacle to a better society.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Tables

Introduction

Part I The Rise and Fall of Good Diets

1 Something is rotten

2 A neo-Schumpeterian approach

3 Spain's two models of dairy consumption since 1950

Part II The Mass Consumption Model (1950-90)

4 Massification

5 Losing the battle for milk (1950-65)

6 Winning the battle (1965-90)

Part III Sophisticated Deviation (1990-Present)

7 Upgrading games

8 A Galbraith moment (1990-2008)

9 Turbulence (2008-present)

Part IV Conclusion

10 What can we learn from this case study?

11 How to promote good diets?

References

Statistical appendix

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350411364

1350411361

9781350401556

1350401552

9781350401563

1350401560

OCLC:

1457638051