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Food Politics (2010)

by Robert Paarlberg(Favorite Author)

3.26 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

019538959X (ISBN13: 9780195389593)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

review 1: Food Politics is an excellent introduction to the causes, possible solutions, and complications of world hunger. It would serve well as a reference for anybody regularly discussing the topic with the public.One small nitpick detail is, the number of underweight population shouldn't be used as an indication of how much of a country is food insecure.The book touches on such a wide range of topics I can understand why they aren't in depth, however they could have given a little more detail to some to make their arguments more compelling.They also are rather Pollyanna about SNAP and food stamps being "wildly bipartisan supported".....Overall I'd recommend the book to anybody working in social work, interested in class politics, food insecurity, or ethical ea... moreting.
review 2: I was really excited to read this book, and will be using info from a couple of chapters for a term paper I'm writing this semester, but I could not find myself getting interested in the topics as Paarlberg discussed them. I am definitely interested in "food politics", but his style of writing was just too straight-factual for me. The book felt like a list of facts, in sentences instead of bullets. Each chapter didn't really have a connection to the other chapters. I found myself tempted to skim many times. The information was helpful for my paper though. less

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