num_pages: 260
description: This book concerns itself with food and hunger issues, primarily in America, but also as America is located in both history and a broader global system today. It focuses on food consumption and production in relation to history, society (including politics and economics), environmental impacts, and some ethical and social justice issues surrounding food. Chapter topics look Food as a Human Value and Problem; The Biological Food, Humans, and Well-Being; Food and From Hunter-Gatherers to the Preindustrial West; Food and Early Industrial Era Transformation; Food in America and the World 1945-2001: Continuing Transformations; Foodways, Eating and Cuisine in America; Food, Population, and Environment; and Food, Ethics, and Social Justice. For individuals who find food issues fascinating because of their relationship to universal and basic human concerns.
language: English
title: Food, Society, and Environment
titlecomplete: Food, Society, and Environment
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Prentice Hall