Bibliograph

The food police, a well-fed manifesto about the politics of your plate, Jayson Lusk

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The food police, a well-fed manifesto about the politics of your plate, Jayson Lusk

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-222) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The food police

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

800352462

Responsibility statement

Jayson Lusk

Sub title

a well-fed manifesto about the politics of your plate

Summary

"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! Taking on the commandments and condescension of the likes of Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Mark Bittman, [Lusk] casts long overdue skepticism on fascist food snobbery, debunking the myths propagated by the food elite."--Jacket

Table Of Contents

A skeptical foodie -- The price of piety -- From cops to robbers : a brief history of food progressivism -- Are you smart enough to know what to eat? -- The fashion food police : organic, the status food -- Franken-fears -- The follies of farm policy -- The thin logic of fat taxes -- The locavore's dilemma -- The future of food

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