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End of Food

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ISBN-10: 0547085974

ISBN-13: 9780547085975

Edition: 2009

Authors: Paul Roberts

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Salmonella-tainted tomatoes, riots, and skyrocketing prices are only the latest in a series of food-related crises that have illuminated the failures of the modern food system. In The End of Food, Paul Roberts investigates this system and presents a startling truth-how we make, market, and transport our food is no longer compatible or safe for the billions of consumers the system was built to serve. The emergence of large-scale and efficient food production forever changed our relationship with food and ultimately left a vulnerable and paradoxical system in place. High-volume factory systems create new risks for food-borne illness; high-yield crops generate grain, produce, and meat of…    
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Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 0.880

Paul Roberts is the author of The End of Oil and The End of Food. As a journalist, his writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 1999, and for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award in 2005. Roberts appears regularly on TV and radio. He lives in Washington State.