Neoliberal Diet - Healthy Profits, Unhealthy People

Analyzing international data regarding food production and social inequality, especially in the NAFTA region, this book convincingly argues that neoliberal regimes, not individuals, have created the global obesity epidemic.

List of contents

• List of Tables and Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Obesity and the Neoliberal Diet
• Chapter 1. The Neoliberal Food Regime and Its Crisis: The Dynamic Factors
• Chapter 2. Neoregulation of Agricultural Biotechnology at the National and Suprastate Scales
• Chapter 3. Food and Inequality in the United States
• Chapter 4. Class Diets in the NAFTA Region: Divergence or Convergence?
• Chapter 5. NAFTA, Agriculture, and Work: Mexico’s Loss of Food and Labor Sovereignty
• Chapter 6. Globalizing the Neoliberal Diet: Food Security and Trade
• Chapter 7. Food Security, Obesity, and Inequality: Measuring the Risk of Exposure to the Neoliberal Diet
• Conclusion: What Is to Be Done?
• References
• Index

About the author

By Gerardo Otero

Summary

Analyzing international data regarding food production and social inequality, especially in the NAFTA region, this book convincingly argues that neoliberal regimes, not individuals, have created the global obesity epidemic.

Product details

• Authors: Gerardo Otero
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781477316986
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-1698-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education