num_pages: 368
description: Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the growing nationwide Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet as one of the nation's leading healthyfood advocates Hauter believes that the local food movement is not enough to solve America's food crisis and the public health debacle it has created. In Foodopoly she takes aim at the real culprit: the control of food production by a handful of large corporationsbacked by political cloutthat prevents farmers from raising healthy crops and limits the choices that people can make in the grocery store.Blending history reporting and a deep understanding of American faming and food production Foodopoly is the shocking and revealing account of the business behind the meat vegetables grains and milk that most Americans eat every day including some of our favorite and most respected organic and healthconscious brands. Hauter also pulls the curtain back from the littleunderstood but vital realm of agricultural policy showing how it has been hijacked by lobbyists driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of the likes of Cargill Tyson Kraft and ConAgra. Foodopoly demonstrates how the impacts ripple far and wide from economic stagnation in rural communities at home to famines overseas. In the end Hauter argues that solving this crisis will require a complete structural shifta change that is about politics not just personal choice.Written with deep insight from one of America's most respected food activists Foodopoly is today's essential guide for anyone who wants to reform our food system from seed to table.
language: English
title: Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America
publisher: The New Press