A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat

We also learn about the convergence of growing social movements using the food system to challenge capitalism. Drawing from classical and modern analyses, A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism introduces the reader to the history of our food systemand to the basics of capitalism. This book will help do that. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to understand capitalism. How did racism, classism, and patriarchy become structural components of our food system? Why is a rational agriculture incompatible with the global food regime? Can transforming our food system transform capitalism? These are questions that can only be addressed by first understanding how capitalism works. . We learn about the potential and the pitfalls of organic and community-supported agriculture, certified fair trade, microfinance, land trusts, agrarian reform, cooperatives, and food aid. Holt-Giménez offers emblematic accounts—and critiques—of past and present-day struggles to change the food system, from "voting with your fork," to land occupations. In his latest book, Eric Holt-Giménez takes on the social, environmental, and economic crises of the capitalist mode of food production. Capitalism drives our global food system. In straightforward prose, Holt-Giménez explains the political economics of why—even as local, organic, and gourmet food have spread arou