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America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat. HD 9005 B628 2008
by Harvev Blatt

This new title describes in considerable detail how the world of food production has changed greatly since the US was founded, how food is presently produced, and how the process, driven by profits and efficiency, has seriously harmed human health and the environment. America’s food explores a food supply system whose efficiency and productivity is unparalleled in human history. Modern industrial farming is not unique to the USA, but it has been refined and deployed here on a scale unmatched anywhere else.

Americans are now able to spend a smaller fraction of their disposable income
on their daily food than anyone on the planet, but as Harvey Blatt makes clear,
there are many other consequences to consider, most of them undesirable. After taking us on a tour of the American food system—not only the basic food groups but soil, grain farming, organic food, genetically modified food, food processing, and diet—Blatt reminds us that we aren't powerless. Once we know the facts about food in America, we can change things by the choices we make as consumers, as voters, and as ethical human beings.

Check out America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat, available now on the library's New Book Shelf and in electronic digital format.