A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism

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Capitalism drives our global food system. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to take note capitalism. This book will lend a hand do that.

In his up to date book, Eric Holt-Giménez takes on the social, environmental, and economic crises of the capitalist mode of food production. Drawing from classical and up to date analyses, A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism introduces the reader to the history of our food systemand to the basics of capitalism. In straightforward prose, Holt-Giménez explains the political economics of why—whilst local, organic, and gourmet food have spread world wide—billions go hungry in the middle of abundance; why obesity is a global epidemic; and why land-grabbing, global warming, and environmental pollution are increasing.

Holt-Giménez offers emblematic accounts—and critiques—of past and present-day struggles to change the food system, from “voting with your fork,” to land occupations. We learn about the potential and the pitfalls of organic and community-supported agriculture, certified fair trade, microfinance, land trusts, agrarian reform, cooperatives, and food aid. We also learn about the convergence of growing social movements the usage of the food system to challenge capitalism. How did racism, classism, and patriarchy transform structural components of our food system? Why is a rational agriculture incompatible with the global food regime? Can transforming our food system grow to be capitalism? These are questions that can only be addressed by first understanding how capitalism works. 

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