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The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto about the Politics of Your Plate
by Lusk, Jayson | HC | VeryGood
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- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
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- Product Group
- Book
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- ISBN
- 0307987035
- Book Title
- Food Police : a Well-Fed Manifesto about the Politics of Your Plate
- Item Length
- 5.7 in
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Medical, Social Science
- Topic
- Food Science, Nutrition, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
- Item Width
- 8.6 in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food. Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows? A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are wallowing in government subsidies. Meat packers and fast food restaurants are exploiting workers and tainting the food supply. And Paula Deen has diabetes! Something must be done. So says an emerging elite in this country who think they know exactly what we should grow, cook and eat. They are the food police. Taking on the commandments and condescension the likes of Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Mark Bittman, The Food Police casts long overdue skepticism on fascist food snobbery, debunking the myths propagated by the food elite. You'll learn: - Organic food is not necessarily healthier or tastier (and is certainly more expensive). - Genetically modified foods haven't sickened a single person but they have made farmers more profitable and they do hold the promise of feeding impoverished Africans. - Farm policies aren't making us fat. - Voguish locavorism is not greener or better for the economy. - Fat taxes won't slim our waists and "fixing" school lunch programs won't make our kids any smarter. - Why the food police hypocritically believe an iPad is a technological marvel but food technology is an industrial evil So before Big Brother and Animal Farm merge into a socialist nightmare, read The Food Police and let us as Americans celebrate what is good about our food system and take back our forks and foie gras before it's too late!
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307987035
ISBN-13
9780307987037
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143597845
Product Key Features
Book Title
Food Police : a Well-Fed Manifesto about the Politics of Your Plate
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Food Science, Nutrition, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Medical, Social Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
5.7 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
8.6 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ra784.L87 2013
Reviews
"If you are looking for one book to set the record straight on the progress in American food, start here." - Tyler Cowen -- author of An Economist Gets Lunch "Jayson Lusk boils down and slices and dices the hypocrisy of liberals ever growing fetish with America's food in a way nobody has before. No empty calories in this expose. You'll be hungry for more." Andrea Tantaros, New York Daily News columnist and co-host of The Five on Fox News , "If you are looking for one book to set the record straight on the progress in American food, start here." - Tyler Cowen -- author of An Economist Gets Lunch, "If you are looking for one book to set the record straight on the progress in American food, start here." - Tyler Cowen, author of An Economist Gets Lunch "Jayson Lusk boils down and slices and dices the hypocrisy of liberals ever growing fetish with America's food in a way nobody has before. No empty calories in this expose. You'll be hungry for more." Andrea Tantaros, New York Daily News columnist and co-host of The Five on Fox News "This is hard hitting and to the point., And scary. The Food and Drug Administration is mainly known for its activities that "protect" consumers from new and beneficial drugs. But, as Jayson Lusk, shows in powerful and pointed detail, the FDA creates massive levels of mischief and confusion through its misguided regulation of food and drink. Chocked-filled with telling anecdotes, and informed by strong economic theory, Lusk offers a compelling expose of government misadventure that tends to hurt the very people whom it is said to protect." - Richard Epstein, law professor at university of Chicago and author of several books "This is a wonderful and well-written book. Reading it was a cathartic experience. It packs an awful lot of common sense and clear headed thinking into a small space. Lusk makes clear that a lot of what academics and politicians take for granted about our agricultural system is in fact nonsense. It is tempting to dismiss the food police as well-intentioned, if not exactly well-informed about the science and economics of food production and consumption. Lusk has reinforced my conviction that to ignore them would be irresponsible. The food police have considerable clout at the highest levels of government and they think they know best about what everyone should eat, including you and me. If they get their way, they would put at risk the ability of our farms to produce healthy and nutritious food at a price the whole world can afford." - Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Table of Content
CONTENTS 1. A Skeptical Foodie 2. The Price of Piety 3. From Cops to Robbers: A Brief History of Food Progressivism 4. Are You Smart Enough to Know What to Eat? 5. The Fashion Food Police: Organic--the Status Food 6. Franken-Fears 7. The Follies of Farm Policy 8. The Thin Logic of Fat Taxes 9. The Locavore's Dilemma 10. The Future of Food Acknowledgments Notes Index
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2012-025935
Dewey Decimal
363.19/2
Dewey Edition
23
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