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Author Kaufman, Frederick, 1961-

Title Bet the farm : how food stopped being food / Frederick Kaufman.

Imprint Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2012.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  338.1 K162b 2012    ---  Available
Description vi, 266 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface: closed to the press -- A marvel of technology -- The Domino's effect -- The measure of all things -- What's new for dinner -- The nucleotidal wave -- The code -- Circus maximus -- A short history of wheat -- The food bubble -- Let them eat cash -- Fresh water and a shotgun -- The price -- Hard red spring -- The bubble business.
Summary Investigates the hidden connection between global food and global finance by asking the simple question: Why can't delicious, inexpensive, and healthy food be available to everyone on Earth? Reveals that money pouring into the global derivatives market in grain futures is having astonishing consequences that reach far beyond your dinner table, including the Arab Spring, bankrupt farmers, starving masses, and armies of scientists creating new GMO foods with U.S. marketing and shipping needs in mind instead of global nutrition. Our food is getting less healthy, less delicious, and more expensive even as the world's biggest food companies and food scientists say things are better than ever and that the rest of us should leave it to them to feed the world.Readers of Bet the Farm will glimpse the power behind global food and understand what truly supports the system that has brought mass misery to our planet.
Subject Food industry and trade -- Social aspects.
Food supply -- Social aspects.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
ISBN 9780470631928 (cloth)
0470631929 (cloth)

 
    
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