The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America

by Andrew Deener

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For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the middle of winter. Yet every piece of food represents an interlocking system of agriculture, manufacturing, shipping, logistics, retailing, and nonprofits that controls what we eat--or don't.

The Problem with Feeding Cities is a sociological...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:022670307X

ISBN13:9780226703077

Release Date:September 2020

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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