Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in

Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

â€œA meticulously researched tour de forceâ€ on politics, big agriculture, and the need to go beyond farmersâ€™ markets to find fixes (Publishers Weekly).
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Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet, as a leading healthy-food advocate, Hauter believes that the local food movement is not enough to solve Americaâ€™s food crisis and the public health debacle it has created. InÂ Foodopoly, she takes aim at the real culprit: the control of food production by a handful of large corporationsâ€”backed by political cloutâ€”that prevents farmers from raising healthy crops and limits the choices people can make in the grocery store.
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Blending history, reporting, and a deep understanding of farming and food production,Â FoodopolyÂ is a shocking, revealing account of the business behind the meat, vegetables, grains, and milk most Americans eat every day, including some of our favorite and most respected organic and health-conscious brands. Hauter also pulls the curtain back from the little-understood but vital realm of agricultural policy, showing how it has been hijacked by lobbyists, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of the likes of Cargill, Tyson, Kraft, and ConAgra.
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Foodopoly shows how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic stagnation in rural communities to famines overseas, and argues that solving this crisis will require a complete structural shiftâ€”a change that is about politics, not just personal choice.
Country USA
Manufacturer The New Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-07-19
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	The New Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2019-07-19
Format	Kindle eBook

Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

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