Erscheint: Oktober 2026
Buch (Softcover): Sachbuch
Elsewhere
How the US Food System Cultivates, Conceals, and Consumes Its Violence
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West Virginia University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35222416
EAN: 9781959000914
Erscheint: Oktober 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
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Beschreibung
Elsewhere argues that you can make all of the "smart" food choices you want and follow Michael Pollan to the letter, but that won't end the violence in the food system. Eating is an act of violence. With every life-sustaining meal and food purchase, we shorten the lives of farmers, laborers, animals, the planet, and ourselves. This isn't a symptom of a broken food system, but a feature of a working. one: our capitalist food system doesn't cause harm accidentally, it does so because it has. to. To keep generating wealth, the system moves its violence around, away from privileged producers and consumers and into forgettable elsewheres: reservations, prisons, distant islands, killing floors, inner cities, rural hinterlands, and war-torn countries. This shell-game is not new. Elsewhere. examines the 250-year history of the US food system to uncover how the country used abundance to enrich some and exploit others; how it captured, colonized, and reorganized territory to conceal its harms; and why decades of technological innovation, environmental awareness, and consumer consciousness haven't staunched these self-inflicted wounds. Elsewhere. invites us to ask different questions about the food system: where does its violence come from, where does it go, and how can we nurture a food system that first does no harm.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Stian Rice
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 280