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Food Tech Transitions : Reconnecting Agri-Food, Technology and Society by Cinzia Piatti, Simone Graeff-Hönninger, Forough Khajehei is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The food industry is now entering a transition age, as scientific advancements and technological innovations restructure what people eat and how people think about food. Food Tech Transitions provides a critical analysis of food technology and its impact, including the disruption potential of production and consumption logic, nutrition patterns, agronomic practices, and the human, environmental and animal ethics that are associated with technological change. This book is designed to integrate knowledge about food technology within the social sciences and a wider social perspective. Starting with an overview of the technological and ecological changes currently shaping the food industry and society at large,  authors tackle recent advancements in food processing, preserving, distributing and meal creation through the lens of wider social issues. Section 1 provides an overview of the changes in the industry and its (often uneven) advancements, as well as related social, ecological and political issues. Section 2 addresses the more subtle sociological questions around production and consumption through case-studies. Section 3 embraces a more agronomic and wider agricultural perspect

Who reads Food Tech Transitions : Reconnecting Agri-Food, Technology and Society?

Author

Cinzia Piatti, Simone Graeff-Hönninger, Forough Khajehei

Publisher

Springer International Publishing Imprint, Springer

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030210588

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Chemistry