Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781626524354)

Explanation of this incongruity lies in the fact that sustainability efforts are rarely positioned to include food choice in an accurate manner. This is due to a number of influencing cultural, social, and political factors that disable our food production systems and limit our base of knowledge-- falsely guiding us on a path of pseudo sustainability, while we devastate the ecosystems that support us, cause mass extinctions, and generate narrowing time lines that will ultimately jeopardize our very survival as a civilization.

Food Choice and Sustainability is a groundbreaking new book that anyone who cares about our future and that of other species should read-- individuals, academic institutions, businesses, organizations, and policy makers. Categories of global depletion are detailed, widely held myths are debunked...

Author: Richard Oppenlander
ISBN-10: 1626524351
ISBN-13: 9781626524354
Publisher: Langdon Street Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2013
Pages: 470
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.30w x 1.60d