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

Michael Pollan est l'auteur de sept livres précédents, dont Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma et The Botany of Desire, qui étaient tous des best-sellers du New York Times. Collaborateur de longue date du New York Times Magazine, il enseigne également l'écriture à Harvard et à l'Université de Californie à Berkeley. En 2010, le magazine TIME l'a nommé l'une des cent personnes les plus influentes au monde.

Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill pdf par 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.