Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work

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Hillcrest Publishing Group, 2013 - 470 pagina's
What we choose to eat is killing our planet and us, yet use of the word 'sustainable' is ubiquitous.

Explanation of this incongruity lies in the fact that sustainability efforts are rarely positioned to include food choice in an accurate manner. This is due to a number of influencing cultural, social, and political factors that disable our food production systems and limit our base of knowledge-- falsely guiding us on a path of pseudo sustainability, while we devastate the ecosystems that support us, cause mass extinctions, and generate narrowing time lines that will ultimately jeopardize our very survival as a civilization.

Food Choice and Sustainability is a groundbreaking new book that anyone who cares about our future and that of other species should read-- individuals, academic institutions, businesses, organizations, and policy makers. Categories of global depletion are detailed, widely held myths are debunked...

 

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Inhoudsopgave

Climate Change and the Easiest Way to Mitigate It
1
Depletion ofLand and Fresh Water
39
Our Oceans and Aquaculture
115
The World of Food Choice Disconnects and Becoming Connected
160
Why Should I Pay for What Everyone Else Decides to Eat?
255
Perspectives on Another Dimension
288
Agricultural Systems and Accountability
302
Animals and Biodiversity
351
Closing Thoughts
405
Index
435
Copyright

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Over de auteur (2013)

Dr. Oppenlander is a consultant, researcher, and author whose award-winning book Comfortably Unaware has been endorsed as a must-read by Ellen DeGeneres, Dr. Jane Goodall and Neal Barnard, among many others. Dr. Oppenlander is a much sought after lecturer on the topic of food choice and how it relates to sustainability, all within the framework of fresh perspectives and critical insights. He has been a key note speaker for several conferences and festivals and has presented lectures and workshops at numerous universities and corporations. Dr. Oppenlander also serves as an advisor to municipalities in the U.S. and to a number of world hunger projects that are designing programs from his multidimensional model of sustainability. Dr. Oppenlander has spent 40 years studying the effects food choices have on our planter and on us. He started an organic, vegan food production company, operates an animal rescue sanctuary, and is the founder and president of the non-profit organization, Inspire Awareness Now.Author's Home: Portage, MI

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelFood Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work
AuteurDr. Richard Oppenlander
UitgeverHillcrest Publishing Group, 2013
ISBN1626524351, 9781626524354
Lengte470 pagina's
  
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