Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill PDF

Michael Pollan ist Autor von sieben früheren Büchern, darunter „Cooked“, „Food Rules“, „In Defense of Food“, „The Omnivore’s Dilemma“ und „The Botany of Desire“, die alle Bestseller der New York Times waren. Als langjähriger Mitarbeiter des New York Times Magazine lehrt er außerdem Schreiben in Harvard und an der University of California, Berkeley. 2010 ernannte ihn das TIME Magazin zu einem der hundert einflussreichsten Menschen der Welt.

Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill pdf von Michael Pollan

Every five years, the U.S. Congress passes a little understood piece of legislation called the Farm Bill. Primarily accountable for setting the budgets and work plans for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Farm Bill is anything but bureaucratic trivia. It is an essential economic and policy engine that drives the food and farming system and provides nutritional assistance to tens of millions of Americans--many of them children. In recent years, more and more citizens are realizing just how much is at stake in this political chess game. Originally published in 2007, Food Fight was Daniel Imhoff's highly acclaimed primer on the 2008 Farm Bill. Now in a newly updated and expanded edition, packed with helpful charts and illustrations, Imhoff looks ahead at this important issue, as the debate for 2012 is already underway. With the legislation due to be reauthorized in late 2012, Food Fight offers a critical resource that can help all who live in the U.S. to deconstruct this challenging bill, organize in their communities to gain a seat at the bargaining table, and ultimately vote with their forks.