Let's Ask Marion by Marion Nestle

Author:Marion Nestle
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520343238
Publisher: University of California Press

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CAN WE FEED THE WORLD WELL?

Kerry: America’s industrial farmers are fond of boasting that they “feed the world” by growing massive quantities of commodity crops like corn and soy, along with meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs, all produced on a scale that our founding fathers could never have imagined. Our industrialized agricultural system is a triumph of American ingenuity, if quantity is your only yardstick for success.

But are we feeding the world well? A global epidemic of obesity and diet-influenced diseases is undermining the health—and shortening the lives—of billions of people. Billions more suffer from malnutrition for lack of access to safe, nutritious food.

How can we take credit for feeding the world without shouldering at least some of the blame for the fact that our factory farms are driving an unprecedented global health crisis? Is it too naïve to hope we might reinvent the way we grow food to actually nourish people, and protect the planet, instead of harming them?

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