The real cost of cheap food / Michael Carolan.

"This thought-provoking but accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us. Detailing the numerous ways that our understanding of food has narrowed, such as i...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Carolan, Michael (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Routledge studies in food, society and environment.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Lists of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Cheap food, globalization, and development; 3 Cheap food and conflict; 4 Cheap food, hunger, and obesity; 5 Cheap meat; 6 Cheap food and the environment; 7 Cheap food â#x80;Œ but at what price?; 8 Cheap food, community, and culture; 9 Cheap food: who wins?; 10 Making food affordable; Index.