We suffer today from food anxiety, bombarded as we are with confusing messages about how to eat an ethical diet. Should we eat locally? Is organic really better for the environment? Can genetically modified foods be good for you?

JUST FOOD does for fresh food what Fast Food Nation did for fast food, challenging conventional views, and cutting through layers of myth and misinformation.

Informative and surprising, JUST FOOD tells us how to decide what to eat, and how our choices can help save the planet and feed the world.

A provocative book that explodes the myths of the locavore movement and charts a path to truly planet-friendly eating.

About the Author
James McWilliams is currently a fellow at Yale University's Agrarian Studies Program, and an associate professor of history at Texas State University. He is the author of two previous books. His articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor

Reviews
McWilliams has guts. Some of the changes he champions will draw fire from all quarters...but he also presents ideas that may appeal to both the greenerati and capitalistas...McWilliams forgoes sloganeering in favor of measured logic, but he doesn't downplay the notion that a worldwide food crisis is imminent and that we had better fix things. Soon. - Mike Shea, Texas Monthly



Book Information
ISBN 9780316033756
Author James McWilliams
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Back Bay Books
Publisher Little, Brown & Company
Weight(grams) 266g
Dimensions(mm) 208mm * 141mm * 20mm