Food for Beginners

by Susan George and Nigel Paige

Book Overview

Discusses the history of food production and argues that modern international agribusiness is largely responsible for world starvation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906495857
• ISBN13: 9780906495858
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Writers & Readers Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Short but very informative

Ever wonder why over 800 million people, mostly in the Third World, live under the constant threat of famine, while in America, crops are left to rot because the storage bins are full? This book gives some of the answers.During the Irish Potato Famine, two million people died of starvation, but Ireland actually had twice as much food as was needed to feed its population. Irish peasants were told by the person who actually owned the land that Paying Rent Comes First (even before feeding their children). The practice still goes on today around the world.International aid programs simply push population control (and dump unsafe contraceptives) on the Third World, instead of changing the conditions that require many children.It's been said that for people who want to become politically active, food is the perfect place to start, because it affects everyone. Reading this book is an excellent way to start that activism.