Clapp, Steve,

Fixing the food system : changing how we produce and consume food / Steve Clapp ; foreword by Marion Nestle. - 1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages) - Gale virtual reference library .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Toward a national food policy -- The real cost of food -- The unfinished business of food safety -- Dietary guidelines become fierce battleground -- Marketing to children in school and out -- Hunger in a wealthy society -- Landscape shift in food advocacy -- Transforming the U.S. agriculture department -- Churches, newspapers, and universities get involved -- The end of food as we know It -- Some of the worst jobs in America -- Treatment of food animals -- Food advocacy changes America.

This book answers questions about what changes are needed, who is advocating the changes, what parties are opposing these changes (and why), and what a new food system would look like. Organized into three sections, the work identifies the problems with the current system, reviews the changing landscape of food policy, and suggests workable solutions for progress.

9781440843709 9781440843716


Food industry and trade.
Nutrition policy.

TX359 / .C53 2017

363.8/561

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