Let Them Eat Junk How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity

, by Albritton, Robert

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ISBN: 9780745328065 | 0745328067
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/15/2009

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Why are half the people in the world malnourished, while so many in the West are over-fed?

Preface	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Introduction	p. 2
General introduction	p. 3
A framework for understanding capitalism	p. 10
Understanding Capitalism	p. 17
The Management of Agriculture and Food by Capital's Deep Structures	p. 18
Capital's profit orientation	p. 26
Capital, time and speed	p. 30
Capital, space and homogenization	p. 33
Capital and workers	p. 37
Capital and underconsumption	p. 41
Capital, oligopoly and globalization	p. 43
Capital and subjectivity	p. 46
Conclusions	p. 49
The Phase of Consumerism and the US Roots of the Current Agriculture and Food Regimes	p. 51
Consumerism's profit orientation: petroleum, cars, suburbs and television	p. 56
Consumerism, time, and speed: unchecked toxicity and life on the run	p. 61
Consumerism, space and homogenization: suburbanization and monocultures	p. 64
Consumerism and workers: hiding the health costs of hazardous working conditions and low wages	p. 66
Consumerism and underconsumption: new forms of debt expansion and advertising	p. 68
Consumerism, oligopoly and globalization: a command economy of corporations	p. 71
Consumerism and subjectivity: the politics of fear	p. 72
Conclusions	p. 76
The Historical Analysis of the US-Centered Global Food Regime	p. 79
The Food Regime and Consumers' Health	p. 80
Capitalist agriculture	p. 81
The case of tobacco	p. 84
The global food regime: a story of irrationality	p. 87
The obesity "epidemic"	p. 91
Sugar	p. 95
Meatification and fat consumption	p. 101
Hunger and starvation	p. 105
Salt	p. 108
Soy	p. 109
Pesticides	p. 110
Food additives	p. 113
Microorganisms	p. 114
Loss of nutrients	p. 115
Genetically modified organisms	p. 118
Supermarkets	p. 119
Fast food chains	p. 120
Conclusions	p. 122
The Health of Agriculture and Food Workers	p. 124
Workers in the US agricultural and food systems	p. 125
Workers in the agricultural and food systems of developing countries	p. 133
Conclusions	p. 144
Agriculture, Food Provisioning and the Environment	p. 146
Peak oil and biofuels	p. 147
Global warming	p. 154
Land and deforestation	p. 156
Fresh water	p. 158
The oceans	p. 159
Species loss	p. 160
Genetically modified organisms	p. 161
Waste	p. 163
Conclusions	p. 164
Food, Marketing and Choice in the United States	p. 165
Choice and the case of tobacco	p. 167
Marketing	p. 171
Marketing to children	p. 172
Choosing junk foods	p. 177
Consumer sovereignty	p. 178
Conclusions	p. 180
Corporate Power, Food and Liberal Democracy	p. 182
Corporations and government	p. 185
Corporations and the legal system	p. 189
Corporations and science	p. 190
Conclusions	p. 197
Conclusions	p. 199
Agriculture, Food and the Fight for Democracy, Social Justice, Health and Sustainability	p. 200
Capitalism's food failures	p. 201
Movements for change	p. 203
Toward a more effective and accountable public sector	p. 204
More accountable corporations	p. 205
Making markets democratically accountable	p. 208
Conclusions	p. 210
Notes	p. 212
Bibliography	p. 238
Index	p. 251
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Let Them Eat Junk How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity

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