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Food Industry and the Politics of Food -

Related category: Food & Cooking

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Ending Hunger: The Quest to Feed the World Without Destroying It by Anthony Warner
    Ending Hunger: The Quest to Feed the World Without Destroying It - by Anthony Warner

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780861542185 | ISBN 10: 0861542185

    In 2017, the number of people going hungry in the world increased, for the first time in a decade. Pesticide-resistant bugs lay waste to crops across the globe, from bananas to potatoes. Food production releases billions of tons of carbon into the wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Sugar Corrupted the World by James Walvin
    How Sugar Corrupted the World - by James Walvin

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472138125 | ISBN 10: 1472138120

    How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic?   The story of sugar, and of mankind's de ... more

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  • Cover image of book Good Food for Everyone Forever: A People
    Good Food for Everyone Forever: A People's Takeover of the World's Food Supply - by Colin Tudge

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9788895604138 | ISBN 10: 889560413x

    Everyone who is ever likely to be born on to this planet could be fed to the highest standards of nutrition and gastronomy — and this could be done without cruelty, or destroying our fellow creatures. By 2050 we will need to feed 9.5 billion people — ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Energy Glut: Climate Change and the Politics of Fatness by Ian Roberts with Phil Edwards
    The Energy Glut: Climate Change and the Politics of Fatness - by Ian Roberts with Phil Edwards

    £15.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848135185 | ISBN 10: 1848135181

    World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight and 300 million are officially "obese", more than 3,000 people die every day on the world's roads and global warming and war threaten our survival as a species. The Energy Glut tells the story of energ ... more

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  • Cover image of book The End of Food: The Coming Crisis in the World Food Industry by Paul Roberts
    The End of Food: The Coming Crisis in the World Food Industry - by Paul Roberts

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596424 | ISBN 10: 0747596425

    How the era of postwar superabundance is coming to and end and what awaits us – by the author of the best-selling The End of Oil.  The emergence of large-scale food production gave us unprecedented abundance – but at a steep and ultimately unsusta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Genetically Modified Food: A Short Guide for the Confused by Andy Rees
    Genetically Modified Food: A Short Guide for the Confused - by Andy Rees

    £19.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780745324395 | ISBN 10: 0745324398

    Where does the food on your plate really come from? Andy Rees exposes how our food has been hijacked by the biotech industry - and who's paying the price... Is the food on our shelves free of genetically engineered ingredients? Although they may ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bad Food Britain: How A Nation Ruined Its Appetite by Joanna Blythman
    Bad Food Britain: How A Nation Ruined Its Appetite - by Joanna Blythman

    £11.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007219940 | ISBN 10: 0007219946

    What is it about the British and food? We just don't get it, do we?   Welcome to the country where recipe books feature constantly in bestseller lists but where people spend more time watching celebrity chefs cooking on TV than doing any cooking ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World by Eric Schlosser
    Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World - by Eric Schlosser

    £8.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780141006871 | ISBN 10: 0141006870

    Do you really know what you're eating when you tuck into that juicy burger? Britain eats more fast food than any other country in Europe. It looks good, tastes good, and it's cheap. But the real cost never appears on the menu. Eric Schlosser's explo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade by John Madeley
    Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade - by John Madeley

    £19.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781856498654 | ISBN 10: 1856498654

    Will free trade benefit transnational coporations or the millions who are currently malnourished? Will small farmers find new markets in the North? Or will they lose even their local markets to cheap, subsidized food from the North? Why should countr ... more

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