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In recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern. The media frequently report on cases of food contamination as well as on the risks of hormones and cloning. Journalists, documentary filmmakers, and activists have had their say, but until now a survey of the latest research on the history of the modern food-provisioning system—the network that connects farms and fields to supermarkets and the dining table—has been unavailable. In __Food Chains__, Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz present a collection of fascinating case studies that reveal the historical underpinnings and institutional arrangements that compose this system. The dozen essays in __Food Chains__ range widely in subject, from the pig, poultry, and seafood industries to the origins of the shopping cart. The book examines what it took to put ice in nineteenth-century refrigerators, why Soviet citizens could buy ice cream whenever they wanted, what made Mexican food popular in France, and why Americans turned to commercial pet food in place of table scraps for their dogs and cats. __Food Chains__ goes behind the grocery shelves, explaining why Americans in the e

Who reads Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture)?

Author

Warren Belasco, Roger Horowitz, Warren James Belasco

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812204445

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Marketing, Business, History