In Food We Trust: The Politics of Purity in American Food Regulation

by Courtney I.P. Thomas

Book Overview

One of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that the United States' food supply is the safest in the world because the government works to guarantee food safety and enforce certain standards on food producers, processors, and distributors. In reality U.S. food safety administration and oversight have remained essentially the same for more than a century, with the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803254814
• ISBN13: 9780803254817
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"