Foodie`s Guide to Capitalism: English 2018

Capitalism drives our global food system. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to understand capitalism. This book will help do that. In his latest book, Eric Holt-Gimnez takes on the social, environmental, and economic crises of the capitalist mode of food production. Drawing from classical and modern analyses, A Foodies Guide to Capitalism introduces the reader to the history of our food system and to the basics of capitalism. In straightforward prose, Holt-Gimnez explains the political economics of whyeven as local, organic, and gourmet food have spread around the worldbillions go hungry in the midst of abundance; why obesity is a global epidemic; and why land-grabbing, global warming, and environmental pollution are increasing. Holt-Gimnez offers emblematic accountsand critiquesof past and present-day struggles to change the food system, from voting with your fork, to land occupations. We learn about the pote