Formerly Known As Food, Kristin Lawless
Formerly Known As Food, Kristin Lawless
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Formerly Known As Food
How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture

Author: Kristin Lawless

Narrator: Jennywren Walker

Unabridged: 9 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/19/2018


Synopsis

“Unless you make it yourself, you have no idea what you are eating and Kristin Lawless explains why. You better read this book before you put another bite of food in your or your kids mouths!” — Laurie David, Academy Award winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth and Fed Up

From the voice of a new generation of food activists, a passionate and deeply-researched call for a new food movement.

If you think buying organic from Whole Foods is protecting you, you're wrong. Our food—even what we're told is good for us—has changed for the worse in the past 100 years, its nutritional content deteriorating due to industrial farming and its composition altered due to the addition of thousands of chemicals from pesticides to packaging. We simply no longer know what we’re eating.

In Formerly Known as Food, Kristin Lawless argues that, because of the degradation of our diet, our bodies are literally changing from the inside out. The billion-dollar food industry is reshaping our food preferences, altering our brains, changing the composition of our microbiota, and even affecting the expression of our genes. Lawless chronicles how this is happening and what it means for our bodies, health, and survival.

An independent journalist and nutrition expert, Lawless is emerging as the voice of a new generation of food thinkers. After years of "eat this, not that" advice from doctors, journalists, and food faddists, she offers something completely different. Lawless presents a comprehensive explanation of the problem—going beyond nutrition to issues of food choice, class, race, and gender—and provides a sound and simple philosophy of eating, which she calls the "Whole Egg Theory."

Destined to set the debate over food politics for the next decade, Formerly Known as Food speaks to a new generation looking for a different conversation about the food on our plates.

About Kristin Lawless

KRISTIN LAWLESS (previously published as Kristin Wartman) is the author of Formerly Known As Food and an independent journalist focusing on the intersections of food, health, politics, and culture. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek, VICE, Huffington Post, and Civil Eats, as well as in academic journals, such as The Black Scholar, Critical Quarterly, and The New Labor Forum. Kristin is a Certified Nutrition Educator and works as a nutrition consultant with doctors in New York City. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Clif on October 20, 2019

There are many things in this book with which most people can agree—e.g. eat whole unprocessed foods and breast feeding is best for baby. Toward the end of the book the author promotes cultural changes that would allow busy people and economically disadvantaged people to eat healthy diets—e.g. unive......more

Goodreads review by Bam cooks the books on June 25, 2018

Kristin Lawless believes in the importance of whole organic foods, breast feeding, etc., but says it is not enough. She will scare you to death with her descriptions of what is getting into our food supply and what it is doing to our bodies. And all this has come about in the last 75-100 years--for......more

Goodreads review by Mara on August 14, 2018

This book is a gut punch that is not easily digested (see what I did there?), in which the author basically takes everything that you've always kind of known about processed food and shoves it in your face until you can't look away or unsee what you see. Basically a manifesto, Lawless mercilessly de......more

Goodreads review by Christina on April 04, 2018

(from my Bellevue Farmers Market blog post, minus the pics) THE PRICE OF DOMESTICATION We were dogsitting this past week, and, whenever it came time to feed the critters, I would find myself philosophizing about the price of domestication: in exchange for a steady food supply, wolves/dogs gave up thei......more

Goodreads review by Ell on March 16, 2018

Formerly Known as Food is an Eye-Opener written by a nutritional expert and consultant. The author’s message is clear and concise and is one that, in my opinion, should be heard by everyone. Even when we think we are making healthy choices we may not be and the ramifications of unhealthy food choice......more