Fair Food Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All

Name: Fair Food Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
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ISBN: 9781610391023

ISBN-10: 1610391020

ISBN-13: 9781610391023

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Authors: Oran B. Hesterman

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A host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and animals. But advice on what to do about it largely begins and ends with the admonition to "eat local or "eat organic."Fair Foodis an enlightening and inspiring guide to changing not only what we eat, but how food is grown, packaged, delivered, marketed, and sold. Oran B. Hesterman shows how our system's dysfunctions are unintended consequences of our emphasis on efficiency, centralization, higher yields, profit, and convenience--and defines the new principles, as well as the concrete steps,…

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List price: $19.99
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 6/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.19" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface to the Revised Paperback Edition


Introduction



Our Broken Food System



The System and Its Dysfunctions



The Problem Is …



Principles of a Fair Food System



A Fair Food System



Strength Through Diversity



Nurturing the Land That Feeds Us



Feeding the Green Economy



From Conscious Consumer to Engaged Citizen



Becoming a Fair Food Activist



Institutional Change



Shifting Public Policy



Resources


Questions for Discussion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index