The End of Food,Used

The End of Food,Used

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Paul Roberts, the bestselling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing.In this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food and shows how our system of making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible with the billions of consumers that system was built to serve.At the heart of The End of Food is a grim paradox: the rise of largescale food production, though it generates more food more cheaply than at any time in history, has reached a point of dangerously diminishing returns. Our highvolume factory systems are creating new risks for foodborne illness, from E. coli to avian flu. Our highyield crops and livestock generate grain, vegetables, and meat of declining nutritional quality. While nearly one billion people worldwide are overweight or obese, the same number of peopleone in every seven of uscant get enough to eat. In some of the hardesthit regions, such as subSaharan Africa, the lack of a single nutrient, vitamin A, has left more than five million children permanently blind.Meanwhile, the shift to heavily mechanized, chemically intensive farming has so compromised soil and water that its unclear how long such output can be maintained. And just as weve begun to understand the limits of our abundance, the burgeoning economies of Asia, with their rising middle classes, are adopting Westernstyle, meatheavy diets, putting new demands on global food supplies.Comprehensive in scope and full of fresh insights, The End of Food presents a lucid, stark vision of the future. It is a call for us to make crucial decisions to help us survive the demise of food production as we know it.Paul Roberts is the author of The End of Oil, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award in 2005. He has written about resource economics and politics for numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Harpers Magazine, and Rolling Stone, and lectures frequently on business and environmental issues.

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