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| List of Figures, Tables and Boxes | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why Food Wars? | |
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| Are radical options in food and health feasible or even possible? | |
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| An outline of the book | |
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| The Food Wars Thesis | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Food policy choices | |
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| Key characteristics of the food supply chain | |
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| The war of paradigms: time for a new framework? | |
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| The Productionist paradigm | |
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| Two new paradigms of food supply? | |
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| The Life Sciences Integrated paradigm | |
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| The Ecologically Integrated paradigm | |
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| The three paradigms summarized | |
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| Which will dominate? | |
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| The place of food and health in the 'paradigm' framework | |
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| The Life Sciences and Ecologically Integrated paradigms' approaches to health | |
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| Ending the Food Wars through policy and evidence | |
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| Capturing the consumer | |
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| Evidence-based policy? | |
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| Diet and Health: Diseases and Food | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The nutrition Transition | |
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| Two categories of malnutrition: underfed and overfed | |
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| The obesity epidemic | |
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| Calculating the burden of diet-related disease | |
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| Food safety and food-borne diseases | |
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| Inequalities and food poverty | |
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| The changing meanings of food security | |
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| Food poverty in the Western world | |
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| Implications for policy | |
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| Policy Responses to Diet and Disease | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Changing conceptions of health | |
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| Changing conceptions of public health | |
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| The nutrition pioneers: a 100-years war | |
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| A more sophisticated approach to food and nutrition | |
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| Post-World War II advances in social nutrition | |
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| Public health strategies: targeting populations or 'at risk' groups? | |
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| Dietary guidelines and goals | |
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| The dietary guidelines battle in the US | |
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| The case against the Western diet | |
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| A new approach to the relationship between food, diet and health | |
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| Obesity: a case study of battles over policy responses to a problem | |
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| Public policy responses to obesity | |
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| Industry response | |
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| The Food Wars Business | |
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| The battle for commercial supremacy in the food system | |
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| The origins of the industrial food supply | |
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| Why 'health' is important to the food industry | |
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| The changing context for the global food economy | |
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| Remarkable changes in agriculture and food production | |
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| Understanding the modern food system | |
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| The emergence of food company clusters | |
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| Farming becoming 'irrelevant' | |
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| A new 'health' colonialism? | |
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| The global scope and activity of food processors | |
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| Long-term structural change in food manufacturing and processing | |
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| Changing company cultures for the 21st century | |
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| From globalization to localization | |
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| Rapid consolidation and concentration in food retailing | |
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| Food retailers and their suppliers | |
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| The scale of the food service industries | |
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| The politics of GM biotechnology and the growth in organics | |
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| Summary and conclusion | |
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| The Consumer Culture War | |
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| The battle for mouths and minds | |
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| Food and health: a done deal for the consumer? | |
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| Consuming wants and needs | |
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| 'Burgerized' politics | |
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| The new consumer web and competing models | |
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| 'Schizophrenic' consumers? | |
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| Moulding food culture | |
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| Food advertising and education | |
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| Obesity: redefining food marketing | |
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| Cooking and food culture | |
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| Shopping, spending and food | |
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| Food activism and the role of NGOs | |
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| The Quality War: Putting Public and Environmental Health Together | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Can consumers save the planet? | |
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| Intensification | |
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| Food and biodiversity | |
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| Water | |
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| Pollution and pesticides | |
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| Waste | |
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| Soil and land | |
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| Climate change | |
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| Urban drift | |
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| Energy and efficiency | |
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| Eating up the fish? | |
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| Meat | |
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| Antibiotics | |
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| Keep eating the fruit: a UK case study | |
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| The clash of farming and biology: have humans got the wrong bodies? | |
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| Food Democracy or Food Control? | |
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| Why is governance an issue? | |
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| Civil society emerges | |
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| Building on existing policy commitments | |
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| How global institutions frame food and health | |
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| Global standards | |
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| Injecting health into regional institutions: the EU case | |
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| Agriculture, subsidies and health | |
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| Injecting the new health into national institutions | |
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| The emerging battle lines: food democracy versus food control | |
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| Human liberty and consumer choice | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Future | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Which paradigm will triumph? | |
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| The paradigmatic analysis | |
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| Questions emerging from civil society | |
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| What of the future? | |
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| Looking for a political lead | |
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| Notes and References | |
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| Index | |