Biting the Hands that Feed Us How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable /

• Main Author: Linnekin, Baylen J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2016.
• Subjects: Environment.; Public policy.; Agriculture.; Environmental policy.; Environment, general.; Environmental Policy.; Public Policy.

Food waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks—these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet, today in the United States, laws exist at all levels of government that actually make these problems worse. The author argues that, too often, g...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. Unsafe at Any Feed
• 2. “Big Food” Bigger Thanks to “Big Government”
• 3. Wasting Your Money, Wasting Food
• 4. I Say “Tomato,” You Say “No”
• 5: There Are Good Food Rules
• Conclusion.