Christopher Cook - Diet For a Dead Planet July 13, 2006

More than 75 million Americans fell sick last year from the food they ate,and 5000 of them died. Obesity and diet-related diseases are soaring to
record levels. Mad cow disease has spread to the United States. The issue of food safety has never been more stark.

Christopher D. Cook's riveting and timely investigation -- now available in paperback -- takes us beyond fast
food and GMOs to explain why our entire food system is in crisis. Corporate control of farms and supermarkets, unsustainable drives to increase agribusiness profits, misplaced subsidies for exports, and anemic regulation
have all combined to produce a grim harvest.

Food, our most basic necessity, has become a force behind a staggering array of social, economic, and environmental epidemics. Yet there is another way. Taking heart from the
promising surge in organics, farmers' markets, and slow food, Cook argues cogently for a whole new way of looking at what we eat -- one that places healthy, sustainably produced food at the top of the menu for political change.

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