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Animal, Vegetable, Junk
A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
Author: Mark Bittman
Narrator: Mark Bittman
Unabridged: 12 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 02/02/2021
Category: Social Science - Agriculture & Food
Synopsis
From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species—and points the way to a better future.The history of Homo sapiens is usually told as a story of technology or economics. But there is a more fundamental driver: food. How we hunted and gathered explains our emergence as a new species and our earliest technology; our first food systems, from fire to agriculture, tell where we settled and how civilizations expanded. The quest for food for growing populations drove exploration, colonialism, slavery, even capitalism. A century ago, food was industrialized. Since then, new styles of agriculture and food production have written a new chapter of human history, one that’s driving both climate change and global health crises. Best-selling food authority Mark Bittman offers a panoramic view of the story and explains how we can rescue ourselves from the modern wrong turn.