Description
Book SynopsisShows how food and drug companies are destroying the planet and the health of the population.
Trade Review'Stan Cox, scientifically accomplished and politically astute, casts a sharp eye on the deadly affliction that threatens our planet, and identifies the penetration of capital into all aspects of life as the pathogen' -- Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature
'Cox's revelatory book skilfully charts the intersections between the medical industry and the chemical agriculture industry. There are villains aplenty' -- Jeffrey St. Clair, Counterpunch
'A short, readable activists crib which ranges fluently across the environmental costs of bloated corporate health care, to the problem of industrial agriculture and 'better living' through chemistry' -- Sam Urquhart, Guerrilla News Network
'A radical treatment proposal, the diagnosis is sobering' -- The Guardian
'This important book brings home the systemic connections between agriculture, pharmaceutical drugs and health. Cox does not propose any easy solutions but his diagnosis is compelling and well worth reflecting on' -- The Scientific and Medical Network
'Cox's discussion might alarm even experts in disaster, providing worthy reminders that the ecological plagues currently making headlines are just the tip of the (melting) iceberg' -- The Texas Observer
'Stan Cox guides us through the chicanery and lies on which modern agricultural and pharmaceutical capitalism depend, and gives us not only a stunning indictment of our modern food and drug system, but the analytical vision to move beyond it'
-- Raj Patel, author, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Health care's malignant growth
2. Feeling OK? Are you sure?
3. Side effects may be severe
4. Swallowing the Earth whole
5. 'Agroterrorists' can take a vacation
6. Down-to-a-trickle economics
7. Supernatural food
8. The world is your kitchen
9. Political impossibility vs. biological impossibility
Notes
Further Reading
Index
