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James Mcwilliams

Eating Promiscuously: Adventures in the Future of Food

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The need to reexamine assumptions about how we feed ourselves becomes ever more important. McWilliams does not shy from imagining radical solutions to these issues . . . Sure to be controversial. ¿Booklist The human practice of farming food has failed. There are 7,500 known varieties of domesticated apples; we regularly eat about five. Seventy-five percent of the world's food derives from five animals and twelve plants. Factory farmed meat is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions (about 14 percent, larger than transportation) and consumes 75 percent of the water in drought-prone regions such as the West. We are stuck in a rut of limited… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-61902-735-0
  • EAN: 9781619027350
  • Produktnummer: 21272381
  • Verlag: Counterpoint
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.5 cm 454 g
  • Gewicht: 454

Über den Autor


James McWilliams is an historian and writer based in Austin, Texas. He is the author of seven books, including The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals, Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, and A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America. His essays on food, animals, and agriculture-as well as several literary topics-have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Harper's, The Atlantic, Slate, Modern Farmer, The American Scholar, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Millions, and Pacific Standard, where he is a contributing writer.

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