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Bittman, Mark.
Animal, vegetable, junk :
a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal /
Mark Bittman.
Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2021.
℗2021.
xiv, 364 pages ;
24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species--and points the way to a better future"--
Provided by publisher.
How humankind first 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, new styles of agriculture and food production have written a new chapter of human history, one that is driving both climate change and global health crises. Bittman offers a panoramic view of the story and explains how we can rescue ourselves from the modern wrong turn. -- adapted from jacket.
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Food habits
United States
History.
Food habits
Environmental aspects
United States.
Agriculture
Social aspects
United States.
Agriculture
Environmental aspects
United States.
Agriculture
Environmental aspects.
Agriculture
Social aspects.
Food habits.
United States.
History.