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The End of Food

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Salmonella-tainted tomatoes, riots, and skyrocketing prices are only the up to date in a series of food-related crises that have illuminated the failures of the brand new food system. In The End of Food, Paul Roberts investigates this system and presents a startling truth—how we make, market, and transport our food is no longer compatible with the billions of consumers the system was once built to serve.

The emergence of large-scale and efficient food production without end changed our relationship with food and in the end left a vulnerable and paradoxical system in place. High-volume factory systems create new risks for food-borne illness; high-yield crops generate grain, produce, and meat of declining nutritional quality; and even as nearly a billion people are overweight, kind of as many of us are starving.

In this vivid narrative, Roberts presents clear, stark visions of the future and helps us prepare to make the necessary decisions to live to tell the tale the demise of food production as we realize it.



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