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Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong And How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly (2009)

by James E. McWilliams(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

031603374X (ISBN13: 9780316033749)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Little, Brown and Company

review 1: Like any book on the economics and ecology of our food supply, Just Food is deliciously controversial, offering a bounty of subjects that at some point are sure to displease everyone who eats. McWilliams doesn't really marinate on the theme of health, which is acceptable since it would make his already complex theories as indigestible as GMO soybeans. Whether you agree with his tenets or not, this is a necessary book because the call for a middle ground between obnoxiously opulent organic and factory farmed federally funded frankenfood is based on easily applied research and real world examples. I don't think his utopia is an impossible dream--whether they dish the blame on evil corporations or misguided government, most people realize that the way the world eats is uns... moreustainable. Sorry for the spoiler: the author promotes some genetically modified plants and farmed fish as energy efficient food sources but not cattle. I thought his conclusion naturally lends itself to modifying reptile genes until they taste like steak, but apparently the world is not ready for my lizard ranching.
review 2: I know I'm going to hate this book, but I'm interested in his arguments about conventional v. organic agribusiness and world food production and figure I should familiarize myself with the arguments of the "other side."I'm already enraged by the tagline here though - DID YOU KNOW that "an imported tomato is more energy-efficient than a local greenhouse-grown tomato"?? Well, depends on the greenhouse-grown tomato - but yes, I did know this, and the locavore movement is not an excuse to not be a critical consumer (and learn how to can and store food if possible). less

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