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Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity
Mass Market Paperback, 619 pages
Published
April 12th 1981
by Ballantine Books
(first published 1977)
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I thoroughly appreciated this read, but it's not one that I can easily recommend to others. It's quite lengthy and dated per se, but it covers the most important laws and other social changes about food production in America--and the imported food (and the respective countries) in which we depend. If you care about the poor and starving of the world, this book is an eye-opener. It inspired me to make several changes about the food I buy and eat.
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very good book
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Recommends it for:
people who care about hungry children
Argues that the solution to world hunger is to grow food first before non-edible cash crops for export to the affluent First World. Discusses the political and economic reasons why so many nations devote their resources to cultivating export crops while their own people starve. Why American cats and dogs grow fat while Third World children suffer from chronic hunger.
This book completely changed my understanding of agriculture, agribusiness and world hunger. It's an oldie but a must read!
First edition is a bit dated and bloated upon re-reading, but still a book that changed my life.
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