Summary
From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species-and points the way to a better future. The history of Homo sapiens is usually told as a story of technology or economics. But there is a more fundamental driver: food.... Full description
- The food-brain feedback loop
- Soil and civilization
- Agriculture goes global
- Creating famine
- The American way of farming
- The farm as factory
- Dust and depression
- Food and the brand
- Soy and chicken
- The force-feeding of junk
- The green revolution
- The resistance
- Where we're at
- The way forward
- Conclusion: We are all eaters.