In a world where hunger and obesity compete for public dollars, where immigrant farm workers and high food prices are equally reviled, where farm subsidies and farm losses are both at all-time highs, and where “diet soda” is not an oxymoron… someone’s got to sort out the contradictions. With Critical Eating, six sociologists do their best to make sense of it all, taking on farm policy, restaurant culture, cooking, eating disorders, obesity, nutrition, livestock, biotechnology, fast food, vegetarianism, national cuisines, farm labor, hunger, food safety, and anything else, from dirt to guts.
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