Refashioning Nature

We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual preference as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too little. In this accessible cross-disciplinary text David Goodman and Michael Redclift look at the development of the modern food system integrating different bodies of knowledge and debate concerning food agriculture the environment and the household. They link changes in our diet and concern with the environment to many of the problems afflicting developing countries: food shortages poor nutrition and wholesale environmental destruction.