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The Real Cost of Cheap Food
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ISBN: 1351624423 1315113236 1351624415 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Taylor and Francis,

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"Thisthought-provoking but accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and byexploring what exactly cheap food affords us. Detailing the numerous ways that our understanding of food has narrowed, such asits price per ounce, combination of nutrients, yield per acre, or calories, the book argues for a more contextualview of food when debating its affordability. The first edition, published in 2011, was widely praised for its innovative approach and readability.In this new edition the author brings all data and citations fully up to date. Increased coverage is given to many topics including climate change, aquaculture, financialization, BRICS countries, food-based social movements, gender and ethnic issues, critical public health and land succession. There is also greater discussion about successful cases of social change throughout all chapters,by includingnew text boxes that emphasize these morepositive messages. The author shows why today's global food system produces just the opposite of what it promises. The food produced under this regime is in fact exceedingly expensive. Many of these costs will be paid for in other ways or by future generations and cheap food today may mean expensive food tomorrow. By systematically assessing these costs the book delves into issues related, but not limited, to international development, national security, healthcare, industrial meat production, organic farming, corporate responsibility, government subsidies, food aid and global commodity markets. It is shown that exploding the myth of cheap food requires we have at our disposal a host of practices and policies. "--Provided by publisher.


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The sociology of food and agriculture
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ISBN: 9781138946255 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Routlege : Taylor and Francis Group,

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A sociological look at biofuels
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ISBN: 161761291X 9781617612916 9781608767083 1608767086 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Nova Science Publishers


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The food sharing revolution
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ISBN: 9781610918879 1610918878 9781642830293 1642830291 9781610918862 161091886X Year: 2018 Publisher: Washington, DC

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Marvin is a contract hog farmer in Iowa. He owns his land, his barn, his tractor, and his animal crates. He has seen profits drop steadily for the last twenty years and feels trapped. Josh is a dairy farmer on a cooperative in Massachusetts. He doesn’t own his cows, his land, his seed, or even all of his equipment. Josh has a healthy income and feels like he’s made it. In The Food Sharing Revolution, Michael Carolan tells the stories of traditional producers like Marvin, who are being squeezed by big agribusiness, and entrepreneurs like Josh, who are bucking the corporate food system. The difference is Josh has eschewed the burdens of individual ownership and is tapping into the sharing economy. Josh and many others are sharing tractors, seeds, kitchen space, their homes, and their cultures. They are business owners like Dorothy, who opened her bakery with the help of a no-interest, crowd-sourced loan. They are chefs like Camilla, who introduces diners to her native Colombian cuisine through peer-to-peer meal sharing. Their success is not only good for aspiring producers, but for everyone who wants an alternative to monocrops and processed foods. The key to successful sharing, Carolan shows, is actually sharing. He warns that food, just like taxis or hotels, can be co-opted by moneyed interests. But when collaboration is genuine, the sharing economy can offer both producers and eaters freedom, even sovereignty. The result is a healthier, more sustainable, and more ethical way to eat.

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No one eats alone : food as a social enterprise
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ISBN: 9781610918060 1610918061 1610918053 9781610918053 9781610918664 1610918665 Year: 2017 Publisher: Washington, [District of Columbia] : Island Press,

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In today’s fast-paced, fast food world, everyone seems to be eating alone, all the time—whether it’s at their desks or in the car. Even those who find time for a family meal are cut off from the people who grew, harvested, distributed, marketed, and sold the foods on their table. Few ever break bread with anyone outside their own socioeconomic group. So why does the author say that that no one eats alone? Because all of us are affected by the other people in our vast foodscape. We can no longer afford to ignore these human connections as we struggle with dire problems like hunger, obesity, toxic pesticides, antibiotic resistance, depressed rural economies, and low-wage labor. The author argues that building community is the key to healthy, equitable, and sustainable food. While researching this book, the author interviewed more than 250 individuals, from flavorists to Fortune 500 executives, politicians to feedlot managers, low-income families to crop scientists, who play a role in the life of food. Advertising consultants told him of efforts to distance eaters and producers—most food firms don’t want their customers thinking about farm laborers or the people living downstream of processing plants. But he also found stories of people getting together to change their relationship to food and to each other. There are community farms where suburban moms and immigrant families work side by side, reducing social distance as much as food miles. There are entrepreneurs with little capital or credit who are setting up online exchanges to share kitchen space, upending conventional notions of the economy of scale. There are parents and school board members who are working together to improve cafeteria food rather than relying on soda taxes to combat childhood obesity. The author contends that real change only happens when we start acting like citizens first and consumers second. This volume is about becoming better food citizens.


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Cheaponomics : le coût élevé des produits bon marché
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ISBN: 9782804190569 2804190560 Year: 2015 Publisher: Louvain-la-Neuve: De Boeck,

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Pensez-vous réellement faire une bonne affaire lorsque vous achetez des produits à prix cassés ? Dans cet ouvrage captivant, Michael Carolan nous invite à y réfléchir en nous montrant clairement que le caractère bon marché des biens et services est une illusion basée sur la "socialisation" des coûts. Le coût réel des bas prix est en fait - et de façon alarmante - élevé, et nous en payons tous au final le prix... pas lors de l'achat, mais sous forme de cotisations sociales qui permettent de compenser la faiblesse de certains salaires, sous forme de dégradation de l'environnement ou de la santé publique, ou encore d'exploitation des travailleurs dans certains pays à bas salaires. Michael Carolan démontre ici brillamment que cette socialisation des risques et des coûts dans les économies de marché modernes est une source de dysfonctionnement majeure, et l'illustre de nombreux exemples pris dans l'industrie informatique, le secteur automobile, l'agroalimentaire, etc. Il nous faut, d'après lui, impérativement changer de trajectoire, pour trouver une meilleure source de bien-être, apporter davantage de justice sociale et une approche équilibrée de la prospérité. Véritable outil pédagogique, l'ouvrage s'adresse à tous : consommateurs, producteurs, citoyens, politiciens... car les sujets traités nous concernent dans notre vie quotidienne. Un livre salvateur, à mettre entre toutes les mains !

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The real cost of cheap food
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ISBN: 9781849713207 9781849713214 Year: 2011 Publisher: London : Earthscan,

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The Food Sharing Revolution : How Start-Ups, Pop-Ups, and Co-Ops are Changing the Way We Eat
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ISBN: 9781610918879 Year: 2018 Publisher: Washington, DC Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

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Marvin is a contract hog farmer in Iowa. He owns his land, his barn, his tractor, and his animal crates. He has seen profits drop steadily for the last twenty years and feels trapped. Josh is a dairy farmer on a cooperative in Massachusetts. He doesn’t own his cows, his land, his seed, or even all of his equipment. Josh has a healthy income and feels like he’s made it. In The Food Sharing Revolution, Michael Carolan tells the stories of traditional producers like Marvin, who are being squeezed by big agribusiness, and entrepreneurs like Josh, who are bucking the corporate food system. The difference is Josh has eschewed the burdens of individual ownership and is tapping into the sharing economy. Josh and many others are sharing tractors, seeds, kitchen space, their homes, and their cultures. They are business owners like Dorothy, who opened her bakery with the help of a no-interest, crowd-sourced loan. They are chefs like Camilla, who introduces diners to her native Colombian cuisine through peer-to-peer meal sharing. Their success is not only good for aspiring producers, but for everyone who wants an alternative to monocrops and processed foods. The key to successful sharing, Carolan shows, is actually sharing. He warns that food, just like taxis or hotels, can be co-opted by moneyed interests. But when collaboration is genuine, the sharing economy can offer both producers and eaters freedom, even sovereignty. The result is a healthier, more sustainable, and more ethical way to eat.


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No one eats alone
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ISBN: 9781610918060 1610918061 1610918053 9781610918053 9781610918664 1610918665 Year: 2017 Publisher: Washington

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In today’s fast-paced, fast food world, everyone seems to be eating alone, all the time—whether it’s at their desks or in the car. Even those who find time for a family meal are cut off from the people who grew, harvested, distributed, marketed, and sold the foods on their table. Few ever break bread with anyone outside their own socioeconomic group. So why does the author say that that no one eats alone? Because all of us are affected by the other people in our vast foodscape. We can no longer afford to ignore these human connections as we struggle with dire problems like hunger, obesity, toxic pesticides, antibiotic resistance, depressed rural economies, and low-wage labor. The author argues that building community is the key to healthy, equitable, and sustainable food. While researching this book, the author interviewed more than 250 individuals, from flavorists to Fortune 500 executives, politicians to feedlot managers, low-income families to crop scientists, who play a role in the life of food. Advertising consultants told him of efforts to distance eaters and producers—most food firms don’t want their customers thinking about farm laborers or the people living downstream of processing plants. But he also found stories of people getting together to change their relationship to food and to each other. There are community farms where suburban moms and immigrant families work side by side, reducing social distance as much as food miles. There are entrepreneurs with little capital or credit who are setting up online exchanges to share kitchen space, upending conventional notions of the economy of scale. There are parents and school board members who are working together to improve cafeteria food rather than relying on soda taxes to combat childhood obesity. The author contends that real change only happens when we start acting like citizens first and consumers second. This volume is about becoming better food citizens.


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Society and the environment : pragmatic solutions to ecological issues
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ISBN: 0813345952 Year: 2013 Publisher: Boulder : Westview Press,

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A new way to understand global environmental issues, emphasizing the interaction between the social and material worlds in order to expand students' sociological imagination and to illustrate possible solutions.

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