Bet the Farm How Food Stopped Being Food

Frederick Kaufman

eBook - 2012

A prominent food journalist follows the trail from Big Pizza to square tomatoes to exploding food prices to Wall Street, trying figure out why we can't all have healthy, delicious, affordable foodIn 2008, farmers grew enough to feed twice the world's population, yet more people starved than ever before--and most of them were farmers. In Bet the Farm, food writer Kaufman sets out to discover the connection between the global food system and why the food on our tables is getting less healthy and less delicious even as the the world's biggest food companies and food scientists say things are better than ever. To unravel this riddle, he moves down the supply chain like a detective solving a mystery, revealing a force at work t...hat is larger than Monsanto, McDonalds or any of the other commonly cited culprits--and far more shocking.Kaufman's recent cover story...The EPUB format of this title may not be compatible for use on all handheld devices. more