Feeding Britain : our food problems and how to fix them / Tim Lang.
By: Lang, Tim [author.]
.Publisher: London : Pelican, 2020Description: xxvi, 567 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241442227.Subject(s): Food supply -- Great Britain | Food supply -- Government policy -- Great Britain | Food habits -- Great Britain | Food industry and trade -- Great Britain | Food industry and trade -- Government policy -- Great BritainDDC classification: 338.1941 Summary: "British food has changed remarkably in the last half century. As we have become wealthier and more discerning, our food has Europeanized (pizza is children's favourite food) and internationalized (we eat the world's cuisines), yet our food culture remains fragmented, a mix of mass 'ultra-processed' substances alongside food as varied and good as anywhere else on the planet. This book takes stock of the UK food system: where it comes from, what we eat, its impact, fragilities and strengths. It is a book on the politics of food. It argues that the Brexit vote will force us to review food system. Such an opportunity is sorely needed. After a brief frenzy of concern following the financial shock of 2008, the UK government has slumped once more into a vague hope that the food system will keep going on as before. Food, they said, just required a burst of agri-technology and more exports to pay for our massive imports. 'Feeding Britain' argues that this and other approaches are short-sighted, against the public interest, and possibly even strategic folly. Setting a new course for UK food is no easy task but it is a process, this book urges, that needs to begin now."--
Taken from book-cover.
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| 338.19 MET Food routes: | 338.19 MON Regenesis : feeding the world without devouring the planet / | 338.19 SAL Eating to extinction : the world's rarest foods and why we need to save them / | 338.1941 LAN Feeding Britain : our food problems and how to fix them / | 338.209 CON Material world : a substantial story of our past and future / | 338.2096 BUR The looting machine : | 338.27240941 PAR Thatcherism and the fall of coal / |
"British food has changed remarkably in the last half century. As we have become wealthier and more discerning, our food has Europeanized (pizza is children's favourite food) and internationalized (we eat the world's cuisines), yet our food culture remains fragmented, a mix of mass 'ultra-processed' substances alongside food as varied and good as anywhere else on the planet. This book takes stock of the UK food system: where it comes from, what we eat, its impact, fragilities and strengths. It is a book on the politics of food. It argues that the Brexit vote will force us to review food system. Such an opportunity is sorely needed. After a brief frenzy of concern following the financial shock of 2008, the UK government has slumped once more into a vague hope that the food system will keep going on as before. Food, they said, just required a burst of agri-technology and more exports to pay for our massive imports. 'Feeding Britain' argues that this and other approaches are short-sighted, against the public interest, and possibly even strategic folly. Setting a new course for UK food is no easy task but it is a process, this book urges, that needs to begin now."--
Taken from book-cover.