{"product_id":"the-end-of-food-isbn-9780547085975","title":"The End Of Food","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Roberts, the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Oil\u003c\/i\u003e, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food and shows how our system of making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible with the billions of consumers that system was built to serve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Food\u003c\/i\u003e is a grim paradox: the rise of large-scale food production, though it generates more food more cheaply than at any time in history, has reached a point of dangerously diminishing returns. Our high-volume factory systems are creating new risks for food-borne illness, from E. coli to avian flu. Our high-yield crops and livestock generate grain, vegetables, and meat of declining nutritional quality. While nearly one billion people worldwide are overweight or obese, the same number of people—one in every seven of us—can’t get enough to eat. In some of the hardest-hit regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, the lack of a single nutrient, vitamin A, has left more than five million children permanently blind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, the shift to heavily mechanized, chemically intensive farming has so compromised soil and water that it’s unclear how long such output can be maintained. And just as we’ve begun to understand the limits of our abundance, the burgeoning economies of Asia, with their rising middle classes, are adopting Western-style, meat-heavy diets, putting new demands on global food supplies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComprehensive in scope and full of fresh insights, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Food\u003c\/i\u003e presents a lucid, stark vision of the future. It is a call for us to make crucial decisions to help us survive the demise of food production as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on meticulous, globe-spanning research, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Food\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Agribusiness Paradox:\u003c\/b\u003e A high-volume factory system that produces more food more cheaply than ever before, but creates frightening new risks and diminishing returns.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Rising Tide of Food-Borne Illness:\u003c\/b\u003e How our global supply chains create the perfect opportunities for pathogens like E. coli and avian flu to spread, turning bags of spinach and fast-food lettuce into vectors for disease.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Twin Epidemics of Hunger and Obesity:\u003c\/b\u003e The stark reality of a world where one billion people are overweight while another billion cannot get enough to eat, sometimes in the same country.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Environmental Impact of Modern Farming:\u003c\/b\u003e An unflinching look at how chemically intensive, mechanized agriculture compromises our soil and water, questioning the long-term sustainability of our methods.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe New Geopolitics of Food:\u003c\/b\u003e As the rising middle classes in Asia adopt meat-heavy diets, new demands are straining global supplies and creating a future of scarcity and conflict.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003eAn indispensable book. . .the best analysis of the global food economy you are likely to find.—Michael Pollan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone's got to eat, and this spellbinding book makes it clear why that may be a problem.—Bill McKibben\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Business","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890114097381,"sku":"NP9780547085975","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780547085975.jpg?v=1730232560","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-end-of-food-isbn-9780547085975","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}