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Fast Food: The Good, the Bad and the Hungry by Andrew F. Smith
Category: Politics | Series: Food Controversies
Fast food is the most pervasive culinary trend of our time. It is an industry that has changed the way the world eats, as the model works virtually everywhere. At its heart are large multinational chains, running an estimated one million outlets in virtually every corner of the world, serving hundreds o ...Show more
In Defense of Processed Food by Anastacia Marx de Salcedo
Category: Diet | Series: Food Controversies Ser.
An iconoclastic celebration of canned, packaged, and preserved foods. By turns a scientific, feminist, and economic critique, this book gleefully attacks received wisdom about the dangers of processed food. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo argues that, in fact, most processed foods are relatively healthy and ...Show more
What's so Controversial About Genetically Modified Food ? by John T Lang
Category: History | Series: Food Controversies
The rampant use of genetically modified food incites public debate among activists, ethicists, scientists, regulators and industry representatives. While proponents portray genetic modification as scientific progress, opponents reframe it as a form of perverted science. But why is it so controversial? T ...Show more
What's the Matter With Meat by Katy Keiffer
Category: Other Science | Series: Food Controversies
What's the Matter with Meat? draws back the curtain that obscures the true costs of indus-trialized meat production. The book exposes how the industry is expanding worldwide ata rapid pace, with just a few large companies monopolizing the majority of the market. This global survey of factory-produced me ...Show more
Why Fast? - The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating by Christine Baumgarthuber
Category: Diet | Series: Food Controversies Ser.
A sober engagement with the diverse meanings of intermittent fasting in human culture. Fasting from food is a controversial, dangerous, and yet utterly normal human practice. In Why Fast?, Christine Baumgarthuber engages our fascination with restrictive eating in cultural history. If fasting offers fe ...Show more
Why Waste Food? by Andrew F. Smith
Category: Cooking | Series: Food Controversies Ser.
About one-third of all food grown for human consumption is lost or discarded every year, despite financial, environmental, and ethical reasons not to waste food. We grow enough food to adequately feed everyone on the planet, yet hundreds of millions of people suffer from hunger, malnutrition, or food in ...Show more
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