Food Wars

Food Wars
Author: Tim Lang
Publisher: Earthscan
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2004
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1853837016

This is an analysis of the impact of globalization on diet and health which shows how the global food economy contributes to ill health and greater inequality. It argues for an alternative approach providing wholesome food and a healthy environment.

Baking Powder Wars

Baking Powder Wars
Author: Linda Civitello
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2017-05-22
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 025209963X

First patented in 1856, baking powder sparked a classic American struggle for business supremacy. For nearly a century, brands battled to win loyal consumers for the new leavening miracle, transforming American commerce and advertising even as they touched off a chemical revolution in the world's kitchens. Linda Civitello chronicles the titanic struggle that reshaped America's diet and rewrote its recipes. Presidents and robber barons, bare-knuckle litigation and bold-faced bribery, competing formulas and ruthless pricing--Civitello shows how hundreds of companies sought market control, focusing on the big four of Rumford, Calumet, Clabber Girl, and the once-popular brand Royal. She also tells the war's untold stories, from Royal's claims that its competitors sold poison, to the Ku Klux Klan's campaign against Clabber Girl and its German Catholic owners. Exhaustively researched and rich with detail, Baking Powder Wars is the forgotten story of how a dawning industry raised Cain--and cakes, cookies, muffins, pancakes, donuts, and biscuits.

Food Wars

Food Wars
Author: Tim Lang
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317623134

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy. This new edition brings these developments fully up to date within the original analytical framework of competing paradigms or worldviews shaping the direction and decision-making within food politics and policy. The key theme of the importance of integrating human and environmental health has become even more pressing. In the first edition the authors set out and brought together the different strands of emerging agendas and competing narratives. The second edition retains the same core structure and includes updated examples, case studies and the new issues which show how these conflicting tendencies have played out in practice over recent years and what this tells us about the way the global food system is heading. Examples of key issues given increased attention include: nutrition, including the global rise in obesity, as well as chronic conditions, hunger and under-nutrition the environment, particularly the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, water stress and food security food industry concentration and market power volatility and uncertainty over food prices and policy responses tensions over food, democracy and citizenship social and cultural aspects impacting food and nutrition policies.

Supermarket USA

Supermarket USA
Author: Shane Hamilton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300232691

America fought the Cold War in part through supermarkets—and the food economy pioneered then has helped shape the way we eat today Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American‑style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how that has shaped our current food system. The widespread appeal of supermarkets as weapons of free enterprise contributed to a "farms race" between the United States and the Soviet Union, as the superpowers vied to show that their contrasting approaches to food production and distribution were best suited to an abundant future. In the aftermath of the Cold War, U.S. food power was transformed into a global system of market power, laying the groundwork for the emergence of our contemporary world, in which transnational supermarkets operate as powerful institutions in a global food economy.

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1634
Release: 1943
Genre:
ISBN:

Food Power

Food Power
Author: Bryan L. McDonald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190600683

Food Power brings together the history of food, agriculture, and foreign policy to explore the use of food to promote American national security and national interests during the first three decades of the Cold War.

The United States at War

The United States at War
Author: United States. Bureau of the Budget. War Records Section
Publisher:
Total Pages: 576
Release: 1947
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe

Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe
Author: Rachel Duffett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317134419

Wars cannot be fought and sustained without food and this unique collection explores the impact of war on food production, allocation and consumption in Europe in the twentieth century. A comparative perspective which incorporates belligerent, occupied and neutral countries provides new insights into the relationship between food and war. The analysis ranges from military provisioning and systems of food rationing to civilians' survival strategies and the role of war in stimulating innovation and modernization.