Summary: Food, Inc. E-Book

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• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 16

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The must-read summary of Karl Weber's book: “Food, Inc.: How Industrial Food is Marketing Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer - And What You Can Do About it”. 

This complete summary of "Food, Inc." by Karl Weber, a collection of challenging essays by leading experts, presents the work's insight into the health issues created by the food industry and offers ways of circumnavigating these problems.

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• Understand how the food industry impacts public health
• Expand your knowledge of American politics and industry

To learn more, read "Food, Inc." and discover how to avoid the health problems posed by the food industry.

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Book Presentation: Food, Inc. by Karl Weber

Book Abstract

The national food supply has changed drastically over the past 50 years, supposedly for the better. But rampant obesity, poor conditions for farm and food processing workers, powerful food lobbies, and environmental degradation tell a different story.

In FOOD Inc., food experts explore the “highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer.” They ask the difficult questions about the food we consume and then provide much-needed guidance and practical tips for alleviating the problems created by the U.S. food industry.

About the Author

Karl Weber is a writer and editor who previously collaborated with Muhammad Yunus on his bestseller, Creating a World Without Poverty. Together with Eric Schlosser (the award-winning journalist who wrote Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan, Robert Kenner (director of FOOD, Inc., the film), and many other leading thinkers and writers in the fields related to food and food production, Weber created a companion book to the powerful documentary, FOOD, Inc.

Summary of Food, Inc. (Karl Weber)

Food and Safety Consequences of Factory Farms

Unlike a few hundred years ago, many meat and dairy products sold in the U.S. now come from factory farms. How is a factory farm different than the farms shown in bucolic children’s picture books? Factory farms are industrial-scale facilities that produce tens of thousands of animals. The animals raised on factory farms are crowded together in such a way that they cannot do the very things that make them a member of their species; things like grazing, rooting, and pecking.

Small family farms have quickly fallen away as huge agribusiness corporations replace them. Rural communities that used to be healthy places are now environmentally degraded as the huge amounts of chemicals and manure run off into local ponds and poison groundwater.