false 1746833 4 The frightening truth about the modern food system. The best-selling author of The End of Oil turns his attention to food and finds that the system we’ve entrusted with meeting one of our most basic needs is dramatically failing us. With his trademark comprehensive global approach, Paul Roberts investigates the startling truth about the modern food system: the way we make food, market and consume it, and even think about it is no longer compatible or safe for the billions of consumers the system was built to serve. The emergence of large-scale and efficient food production changed forever our relationship with food and ultimately left a vulnerable and paradoxical system in place. Over 1.1 billion people worldwide are “over-nourished,” according to the World Health Organization, and are at risk of obesity-related illness, while roughly as many people are starving. Meanwhile the natural systems all food is dependent upon have been irreparably damaged by chemicals and destructive farming techniques; the pressures of low-cost food production court contamination and disease; and big food consumers, such as China and India, are already planning for tightened global food supplies, making it clear that the era of superabundance is behind us. Vivid descriptions, lucid explanations, and fresh thinking make The End of Food uniquely able to offer a new, accessible way to understand the vulnerable miracle of the modern food economy. Roberts presents clear, stark visions of the future and helps us prepare to make the decisions -- personal and global -- we must make to survive the demise of food production as we know it. 1744531 4 6 2008 The End of Food total:208|5:43|4:85|3:69|2:10|1:1| 208 783 592 64 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 5 8 false Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 12:44:57 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 30 14:16:55 -0700 2008
In treating food as a commodity, we have opened a Pandora's box of sorts. Our global food economy is literally on the brink of disaster. Disaster that can not only cause our food prices to rise, but c...more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 3 1 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jul 16 15:46:12 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 13 10:03:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 3 1 false Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 13:50:05 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 11:09:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 4 1 false Tue Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 10:43:14 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 05:54:48 -0700 2008 The End of Food offers a deeper look at the global food system than any previous book I have read. At times it reminded me of Confessions of an Economic Hitman and The Omnivore's Dilemma combined into one. Mixing solid writing with a behind the scenes look at the geo-political systems that contr...more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 5 0 false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 14:47:45 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 16:19:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 3 0 false Tue Jun 30 20:57:59 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 21:27:18 -0700 2009
But of course, this is unfair to a book that is so exhaustively researched and in many ways well-presented for a reader that is not afraid to wade through a bit of technical writing. I would b...more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 3 1 false Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 08:09:11 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 08:03:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 3 0 false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 08:41:18 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 05:30:55 -0800 2008
This was an interesting book to read while Ireland had another food crisis, where industrial gra...more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 4 0 false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 09:43:47 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 09:47:35 -0700 2009
As I personally have been exploring our industrialized food supply (starting with Omnivore's Dilemma in this Book Club t...more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 5 0 false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 15:02:23 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 15:16:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 3 0 false Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 20:02:20 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 20:03:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 4 0 false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 17:50:21 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 09:54:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 4 0 false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 14:18:31 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 04:03:33 -0700 2009
This book is an overview of the way the world grows and buys food. I don't know that much about agriculture. We had a garden growing up, more it seems to torment me then to provide any type of sustenance. But real live off of what you plant never. And I don't think I would know ho...more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 2 0 false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 20:10:45 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 14:04:40 -0700 2009 Thoughts/Interesting bits:
-Check out the...more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 3 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 18:47:22 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 25 05:49:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 3 0 false Wed Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 21:30:55 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 13:25:09 -0700 2008
This book made me ...more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 4 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 11:50:48 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 14:43:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 6215456 0747588813 9780747588818 2 1 3.76 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6215456.The_End_of_Food 5 0 false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 01:23:56 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 01:24:17 -0800 2009
Journalist Paul Roberts investigated the global food-delivery system and he reports that food product production and prices have advanced like the production and prices of other contemporary consumer goods. The economics of the food system ...more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 3 0 false Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 08:58:47 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 15:18:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1746833 0618606238 9780618606238 201 63 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187690908m/1746833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746833.The_End_of_Food 5 0 false Wed Dec 10 16:22:43 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 16:32:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6215456