Never Out of Season
Subtitle: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future
By: Rob Dunn
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Hachette Book Group; Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780316260725
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Food consumption; Food crops; Agricultural ecology; Food supply
Other titles: How having the food we want when we want it threatens our food supply and our future
Description: The bananas we eat today aren't our parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out. That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance--once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season, and we breed and clone the hardiest, best-tasting varieties of the crops we rely on most. As a result, a smaller proportion of people on earth go hungry today than at any other moment in the last thousand years, and the streamlining of our food supply guarantees that the food we buy, from bananas to coffee to wheat, tastes the same every single time. Our corporate food system has nearly perfected the process of turning sunlight, water and nutrients into food. But our crops themselves remain susceptible to nature's fury. And nature always wins.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: 1.
title: A banana in Every Bowl
pagenum: 3; label: 2.
title: An Island Like Ours
pagenum: 13; label: 3.
title: The Perfect Pathological Storm
pagenum: 28; label: 4.
title: Escape is Temporary
pagenum: 44; label: 5.
title: My Enemy's Enemy Is My Friend
pagenum: 56; label: 6.
title: Chocolate Terrorism
pagenum: 72; label: 7.
title: The Meltdown of the Chocolate Ecosystem
pagenum: 91; label: 8.
title: Prospecting for Seeds
pagenum: 103; label: 9.
title: The Siege
pagenum: 115; label: 10.
title: The Grass Eaters
pagenum: 131; label: 11.
title: Henry Ford's Jungle
pagenum: 144; label: 12.
title: Why We Need Wild Nature
pagenum: 158; label: 13.
title: The Red Queen and the Long Game
pagenum: 170; label: 14.
title: Fowler's Ark
pagenum: 182; label: 15.
title: Grains, Guns, and Desertification
pagenum: 212; label: 16.
title: Preparing for the Flood
pagenum: 230; title: Epilogue: What Do I Do?
pagenum: 250; label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 259; label: Notes
pagenum: 265; label: Index
pagenum: 311