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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 | |