Bad choices in our food system /by Lydia Zepeda.

By:

Zepeda, Lydia [Author]

Material type: Text

TextDescription: 1 online resource (xv, 237 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781527565951

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Electronic Books.

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HD9000 .B333 2021

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Contents:

What is our food system like? -- How did we get here? -- The other costs of our choices -- Where are we going? -- Why do we choose the foods we do? -- How do we fix this? -- No really, how do we fix this? -- Epilogue.

Subject: Globally, our food system contributes to resource and habitat depletion, climate change, pollution, social injustice, economic hardship for small and medium farmers, and a public health crisis. The environmental, social, and public health costs of this current system are not properly acknowledged. Agriculture is the leading user of land and water, and a significant contributor to greenhouse gases, while farmers and agricultural and food workers are struggling to make a living. Diet is implicated in one in five deaths worldwide and diet-related illnesses are the leading cause of deaths in the US. Unhealthy diets occur across all countries and all income levels. Despite this, we are told it is the consumers' fault. Putting the blame on individuals deflects attention from the policies that created the problems in the first place. With a focus on US policies, this book examines how our global food system has given us bad choices.

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Bad choices -- What is our food system like? -- How did we get here? -- The other costs of our choices -- Where are we going? -- Why do we choose the foods we do? -- How do we fix this? -- No really, how do we fix this? -- Epilogue.

Globally, our food system contributes to resource and habitat depletion, climate change, pollution, social injustice, economic hardship for small and medium farmers, and a public health crisis. The environmental, social, and public health costs of this current system are not properly acknowledged. Agriculture is the leading user of land and water, and a significant contributor to greenhouse gases, while farmers and agricultural and food workers are struggling to make a living. Diet is implicated in one in five deaths worldwide and diet-related illnesses are the leading cause of deaths in the US. Unhealthy diets occur across all countries and all income levels. Despite this, we are told it is the consumers' fault. Putting the blame on individuals deflects attention from the policies that created the problems in the first place. With a focus on US policies, this book examines how our global food system has given us bad choices.

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