Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman

Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
Mark Bittman
Page: 384
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780358645528
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultra-processed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species and points the way to a better future.

The history of Homo sapiens is usually told as a story of technology or economics. But there is a more fundamental driver: food. How we hunted and gathered explains our emergence as a new species and our earliest technology; our first food systems, from fire to agriculture, tell where we settled and how civilizations expanded. The quest for food for growing populations drove exploration, colonialism, slavery, even capitalism.

A century ago, food was industrialized. Since then, advancing styles of agriculture and food production have written a new chapter of human history, one that’s driving both climate change and global health crises. Best-selling food authority Mark Bittman offers a panoramic view of the story and explains how we can rescue ourselves from the modern wrong turn.

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