Animal, vegetable, junk : a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal Cover Image

CD Audiobook

Animal, vegetable, junk : a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal / Mark Bittman.

Bittman, Mark, (author,, narrator.).

Summary:

A century ago, food was industrialized. Since then, new 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. Food authority Mark Bittman offers a panoramic view of the story and explains how we can rescue ourselves from the modern wrong turn.

Record details

ISBN: 9781664783638
ISBN: 1664783636
ISBN: 9780358394839
ISBN: 035839483X
Physical Description: 10 audio discs (13 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [Boston, Massachusetts] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Compact discs.
Formatted Contents Note:	The food-brain feedback loop -- Soil and civilization -- Agriculture goes global -- Creating famine -- The American way of farming -- The farm as factory -- Dust and depression -- Food and the brand -- Vitamania and "the farm problem" -- Soy and chicken -- The force-feeding of junk -- The so-called green revolution -- The resistance -- Where we're at -- The way forward -- Conclusion: We are all eaters.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by the author.