Book
Formerly known as food : how the industrial food system is changing our minds, bodies, and culture / Kristin Lawless.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250078315 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xvii, 317 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Our industrial food landscape : the whole egg theory and how we got here -- What are we actually eating? : industrial food and your health -- Losing our food illusions : "organics" and the nutrients missing from our food -- The industrial food setup : getting us (and our children) hooked from day one -- Living in a microbial world : industrially processed food and our guts -- "So many tips of so many icebergs" : how endocrine-disrupting chemicals are harming us (and our children and their children) -- Our "safe" exposure to toxic chemicals : how the regulatory agencies are failing to protect our health -- Food choice : the culture of our upside-down food environment -- Handmaidens of industry : women, the home, and unwaged work -- We can't eat our way out of this : food movement failures and real change -- Conclusion : protecting our bodies and our future -- A new food movement manifesto -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Nutrition > Social aspects. Diet > Social aspects. Food industry and trade > Social aspects. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Stroud Branch | 363.8 Law | 31681010106870 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
An independent journalist and certified nutrition educator presents a passionate and deeply researched call for a logical food movement that acknowledges the role of industrial farming and chemical additives in compromising food quality and safety. - Baker & Taylor
An independent journalist and nutrition expert discusses how the industrial food system is causing a deterioration of the nutritional content in food as well as altering its composition by adding thousands of chemicals, from pesticides to packaging. - McMillan Palgrave
Sustainable Literature Commitee's 2018 Green Prize Winner ⢠One of Bustle's "17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In June 2018" ⢠One of The Revelator's "16 New Environmental Books for June" ⢠One of Equinox's "5 Books High Performers Should Read in June" ⢠One of Foodtank's "18 Books Making a Splash This Summer" ⢠One of CivilEats' "22 Noteworthy Food and Farming Books for Summer Readingâand Beyond"
From the voice of a new generation of food activists, a passionate and deeply-researched call for a new food movement.
If you think buying organic from Whole Foods is protecting you, you're wrong. Our foodâeven what we're told is good for usâhas changed for the worse in the past 100 years, its nutritional content deteriorating due to industrial farming and its composition altered due to the addition of thousands of chemicals from pesticides to packaging. We simply no longer know what weâre eating.
In Formerly Known as Food, Kristin Lawless argues that, because of the degradation of our diet, our bodies are literally changing from the inside out. The billion-dollar food industry is reshaping our food preferences, altering our brains, changing the composition of our microbiota, and even affecting the expression of our genes. Lawless chronicles how this is happening and what it means for our bodies, health, and survival.
An independent journalist and nutrition expert, Lawless is emerging as the voice of a new generation of food thinkers. After years of "eat this, not that" advice from doctors, journalists, and food faddists, she offers something completely different. Lawless presents a comprehensive explanation of the problemâgoing beyond nutrition to issues of food choice, class, race, and genderâand provides a sound and simple philosophy of eating, which she calls the "Whole Egg Theory."
Destined to set the debate over food politics for the next decade, Formerly Known as Food speaks to a new generation looking for a different conversation about the food on our plates.
Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything: "In this revelatory survey of the dangers of the industrial food system, Lawless offers crucial tools for navigating it safely. The best ones have nothing to do with shopping advice: she asks us to think holistically about food, why it can't be separated from other struggles for justice, and what it means to demand transformative change."
Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything: "A stirring call to action. Lawless has done a thorough job of describing how so much of what we eat doesn't qualify as 'food'"
Laurie David, Academy Award winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth and Fed Up: âYou better read this book before you put another bite of food in your or your kids' mouths!â
Mary Esther Malloy, MA, Mindful Birth NY: "Groundbreaking... will get you thinking differently about how you nourish yourself and your family."
