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The complete story of what we don't know, and what we should know, about American food production and its effect on health and the environment.We don't think much about how food gets to our tables, or what had to happen to fill our supermarket's produce section with perfectly round red tomatoes and its meat counter with slabs of beautifully marbled steak. We don't realize that the meat in one fast-food hamburger may come from a thousand different cattle raised in five different countries. In fact, most of us have a fairly abstract understanding of what happens on a farm. In America's Food, Harvey Blatt gives us the specifics. He tells us, for example, that a third of the fruits and vegetables grown are discarded for purely aesthetic reasons; that the artificial fertilizers used to enrich our depleted soil contain poisonous heavy metals; that chickens who stand all day on wire in cages choose feed with pain-killing drugs over feed without them; and that the average American eats his or her body weight in food additives each year. Blatt also asks us to think about the consequences of eating food so far removed from agriculture; why unhealthy food is cheap; why there is an Internation

Who reads America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat (MIT Press)?

Author

Blatt, Harvey

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262515955

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, Health & Fitness, Engineering