Cornucopia : leveraging agriculture to improve health and nutrition /

Cornucopia : leveraging agriculture to improve health and nutrition /

Cornucopia explores the health and economic implications of U.S. farm policy. Using a corn farm in rural South Dakota as his starting point, Johnson reviews the history of agricultural policies in America to understand how large-scale, industrial agriculture came to play such a large role in U.S. an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, D. Patrick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Hamilton Books, [2011]
Subjects:
Food industry and trade > United States.
Food supply > Government policy > United States.
Agriculture and state > United States.
Agriculture > Health aspects.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • You are what you eat
  • On the farm
  • America's cornucopia
  • How we got fat, part I
  • The American diet
  • How we got fat, part II
  • HFCS and health
  • Big food, meet big tobacco
  • Lessons from the pyramid
  • The case for reform
  • Fixing the system
  • Local, regional, national
  • Getting it right at W and M.

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