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There is growing popular fear over possible pesticide contamination of food and the microbiological safety of the food supply. This work explains why corporate agribusiness is a rising threat to farmers, the environment, and consumers. Ranging in subject from the politics of hunger to the new agricultural biotechnologies, the book addresses the reasons for the expansion of hunger despite the increase of world food supplies, and points the way toward organic, sustainable solutions to the problems of food supply and distribution.

Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment

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Hardback by Fred Magdoff , John Bellamy Foster

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There is growing popular fear over possible pesticide contamination of food and the microbiological safety of the food supply. This... Read more

    Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
    Publication Date: 01/09/2000
    ISBN13: 9781583670156, 978-1583670156
    ISBN10: 1583670157

    Number of Pages: 220

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    There is growing popular fear over possible pesticide contamination of food and the microbiological safety of the food supply. This work explains why corporate agribusiness is a rising threat to farmers, the environment, and consumers. Ranging in subject from the politics of hunger to the new agricultural biotechnologies, the book addresses the reasons for the expansion of hunger despite the increase of world food supplies, and points the way toward organic, sustainable solutions to the problems of food supply and distribution.

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