Safe Food Safe Food

Safe Food

The Politics of Food Safety

    • $12.99
    • $12.99

Publisher Description

Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm not only about the food served in restaurants and fast-food outlets but also about foods bought in supermarkets. The introduction of genetically modified foods—immediately dubbed "Frankenfoods"—only adds to the general sense of unease. Finally, the events of September 11, 2001, heightened fears by exposing the vulnerability of food and water supplies to attacks by bioterrorists. How concerned should we be about such problems? Who is responsible for preventing them? Who benefits from ignoring them? Who decides?

Marion Nestle, author of the critically acclaimed Food Politics, argues that ensuring safe food involves more than washing hands or cooking food to higher temperatures. It involves politics. When it comes to food safety, billions of dollars are at stake, and industry, government, and consumers collide over issues of values, economics, and political power—and not always in the public interest. Although the debates may appear to be about science, Nestle maintains that they really are about control: Who decides when a food is safe?

She demonstrates how powerful food industries oppose safety regulations, deny accountability, and blame consumers when something goes wrong, and how century-old laws for ensuring food safety no longer protect our food supply. Accessible, informed, and even-handed, Safe Food is for anyone who cares how food is produced and wants to know more about the real issues underlying today's headlines.

GENRE
Cookbooks, Food & Wine
RELEASED
2010
June 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
408
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of California Press
SELLER
University of California Press
SIZE
6.7
MB
The Secret History of Food The Secret History of Food
2021
Milk Milk
2011
Divided Spirits Divided Spirits
2015
American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way
2019
Eating History Eating History
2009
American Wasteland American Wasteland
2011
What to Eat What to Eat
2010
Food Politics Food Politics
2013
Unsavory Truth Unsavory Truth
2018
Soda Politics Soda Politics
2015
Feed Your Pet Right Feed Your Pet Right
2010
Why Calories Count Why Calories Count
2012