Book: Diet for a Dead Planet, From BuzzFlash

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Diet for a Dead Planet, From BuzzFlash

 

 

 

 

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If You Are What You Eat, You Should Read This Book!

 

 

Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis

Christopher D. Cook

 

 

BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt)

 

" If we are what we eat, then, as Christopher D. Cook contends in this

powerful look at the food industry, we are not in good shape. The

facts speak for themselves: more than 75 million Americans suffered

from food poisoning last year, and 5,000 of them died; 67 percent of

American males are overweight, obesity is the second leading cause of

preventable death in the United States and supersizing is just the tip

of the iceberg: the way we make and eat food today is putting our

environment and the very future of food at risk.

 

Diet for a Dead Planet, now available in paperback, takes us beyond

Fast Food Nation to show how our entire food system is in crisis.

Corporate control of farms and supermarkets, unsustainable drives to

increase agribusiness productivity and profits, misplaced subsidies

for exports, and anemic regulation have all combined to produce a grim

harvest. Food, our most basic necessity, has become a force behind a

staggering array of social, economic, and environmental epidemics.

 

Yet there is another way. Cook argues cogently for a whole new way of

looking at what we eat—one that places healthy, sustainably produced

food at the top of the menu for change. "

Read The Full Review >>>

http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/297

 

Other Reviews

" A far-reaching takedown of the American food industy. "

 

-- Mother Jones

 

 

" A powerful and provocative indictment of the food industry. If you

eat, read this important book. "

 

-- Jim Hightower

 

 

" Stands in the classic American tradition of muckraking journalism.

Cook offers an extensive and frightening catalog of the perils in our

food supply. "

 

—San Diego Union-Tribune

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