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Tables of Contents for Food, Society, and Environment
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Introduction Food as a Human Value and Problem
1
2
Peeling the Food Onion
3
2
What You Can Expect: Our Focus, Scope, and Organization
5
4
The Biological Base: Food, Humans, and Well-Being
9
22
Food and Nutrients
10
5
Nutritional Science, Recommended Intakes, and Food Pyramids
15
4
Nutritional Science: Some Conclusions and Controversies
19
11
Conclusion
30
1
Some Suggestions for Further Reading and Information
30
1
Food and History: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Preindustrial West
31
31
From Hunter-Gatherers to Cultivators
32
4
The First Civilizations
36
3
Ancient Greece and Rome
39
4
The Middle Ages
43
1
Agricultural Innovations and Eating in the Middle Ages
44
2
Religion, Fasting, and Medieval Eating Disorders
46
2
Food, Population, and Change in the Middle Ages
48
2
The Early Modern Period
50
6
The Early American Diet
56
4
Some Suggestions for Further Reading
60
2
Food and America: Early Industrial Era Transformation
62
28
The Industrial Revolution and the Commodification of Food and Farming
63
4
Progress and Problems: A Cautionary Tale
67
1
Changes in Food Marketing and Consumption
68
3
Continuing Transformations in the New Century
71
1
Immigration and Ethnic Cuisines
72
4
Early Food Reform Movements
76
3
Corporations, Farmers, and Politics
79
3
Mid-Twentieth-Century Crises
82
2
The Food Business
84
1
Restaurants and ``Eating Out''
85
3
The Impact of World War II
88
1
Some Suggestions for Further Reading
89
1
Food in America and the World 1945-2002: Continuing Transformations
90
40
Technifying Foods
90
4
Feeding the Hungry
94
2
The Biotechnology Revolution
96
4
The Price of Industrial Agriculture
100
2
Safeguarding the Food Supply and the Environment
102
1
Fast Foods, Diet Foods, and Contemporary American Cuisine
102
3
Food Consumption Trends: A Summary
105
1
Political-Economy: Changing Ownership and Control
106
1
Down on the Farm...
107
4
The Changing Food Business: Oligopolies
111
5
Government and Food
116
4
Globalization; The Evolving World Food Order
120
3
So What?
123
6
Some Suggestions for Further Reading
129
1
Foodways: Eating and Cuisines in America
130
32
Eating Together
131
4
American Foodways: Assimilation and Diversity
135
3
American Foodways: Ethnicity and Social Class
138
5
American Foodways: Gender
143
3
American Foodway Trends: McDonaldization
146
4
Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment: Foodway Reform Movements
150
5
McDonaldization, Nutrition, and Health
155
2
The Epidemic of Obesity
157
4
Some Suggestions for Further Reading
161
1
Food, Population, and Environment
162
40
Population Growth
162
1
World Population Growth
163
3
The Environmental Impact of Producing Food
166
13
Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture?
179
2
Sustainable Farming and Agroecology
181
2
Hunger in America and the World
183
3
The Causes of Hunger
186
6
Addressing Chronic Hunger
192
1
Elements of a Realistic Approach
193
5
Rebuilding the Grassroots in the United States
198
2
In Sum...
200
1
Some Suggestions for Further Reading
200
2
Food, Ethics, and Social justice
202
24
Ethical and Social Justice Perspectives
204
2
Dealing with Hunger in America
206
4
Six Strategies to Address Hunger in America
210
4
Effectiveness, Ethics, and Justice
214
1
Dealing with World Hunger: The Ethics of Trade and Aid
215
2
What Goes Wrong?
217
2
Food Aid
219
3
Reforming Food Trade and Aid
222
3
Some Suggestions for Further Reading
225
1
Notes
226
24
Photo Credits
250
1
Index
251