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  title info:
    title: No One Eats Alone
    sub title: Food as a Social Enterprise
  name:
    name part: Carolan, Michael S.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 171 p. 2 illus. online resource.
  abstract: In today’s fast-paced, fast food world, everyone seems to be eating alone, all the time—whether it’s at their desks or in the car. Even those who find time for a family meal are cut off from the people who grew, harvested, distributed, marketed, and sold the foods on their table. Few ever break bread with anyone outside their own socioeconomic group. So why does the author say that that no one eats alone? Because all of us are affected by the other people in our vast foodscape. We can no longer afford to ignore these human connections as we struggle with dire problems like hunger, obesity, toxic pesticides, antibiotic resistance, depressed rural economies, and low-wage labor. The author argues that building community is the key to healthy, equitable, and sustainable food. While researching this book, the author interviewed more than 250 individuals, from flavorists to Fortune 500 executives, politicians to feedlot managers, low-income families to crop scientists, who play a role in the life of food. Advertising consultants told him of efforts to distance eaters and producers—most food firms don’t want their customers thinking about farm laborers or the people living downstream of processing plants. But he also found stories of people getting together to change their relationship to food and to each other. There are community farms where suburban moms and immigrant families work side by side, reducing social distance as much as food miles. There are entrepreneurs with little capital or credit who are setting up online exchanges to share kitchen space, upending conventional notions of the economy of scale. There are parents and school board members who are working together to improve cafeteria food rather than relying on soda taxes to combat childhood obesity. The author contends that real change only happens when we start acting like citizens first and consumers second. This volume is about becoming better food citizens.
  note: by Michael S. Carolan.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Environmental policy
  subject:
    topic: Social justice
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environment, general
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Policy
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights
  classification: GE1-350
  classification: 333.7
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781610918060
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-806-0
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    record creation date: 171006
    record change date: 20171007121309.0
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