Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment
()
About this ebook
Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other technological innovations intended to improve the food supply’s productivity and safety have generated new, often poorly understood risks for consumers and the environment. From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tensions that exists among scientific understandings of risk, policymakers’ decisions, and cultural notions of “pure” food.
Read more from Angela N. H. Creager
Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsResidues: Thinking Through Chemical Environments Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Risk on the Table
Titles in the series (23)
Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFault Lines: Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCycling and Recycling: Histories of Sustainable Practices Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPowerless Science?: Science and Politics in a Toxic World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsManaging the Unknown: Essays on Environmental Ignorance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDisrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn the Name of the Great Work: Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInternational Organizations and Environmental Protection: Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIce and Snow in the Cold War: Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsManaging Northern Europe's Forests: Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChanges in the Air: Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRussian Cold, The: Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConservation’s Roots: Managing for Sustainability in Preindustrial Europe, 1100–1800 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRisk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsColonial Seeds in African Soil: A Critical History of Forest Conservation in Sierra Leone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Meanings of a Disaster: Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEnvironing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Planting Seeds of Knowledge: Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThinking Russia's History Environmentally Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related ebooks
Zuñi Folk Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe 12 Alchemists & Other Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Pantropheon; Or, History of Food, Its Preparation, from the Earliest Ages of the World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNarrative Mourning: Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sacred Foodways of Film: Theological Servings in 11 Food Films Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Religious Dreamworld of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: Recovering a Forgotten Hermeneutic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCornish Folk Tales of Place: Traditional Stories from North and East Cornwall Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsToward a Sacramental Poetics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEnduring Motives: The Archaeology of Tradition and Religion in Native America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAddresses and Essays on Vegetarianism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMont Saint Michel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPharais; and, The Mountain Lovers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOptiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Place of Magic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lore of the Honey-Bee Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMapping the World Differently: African American Travel Writing About Spain Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEtruscan Tomb Paintings, Their Subjects and Significance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot's Theatre of Neptune in New France Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Seeking Sophia: Meditations and reflections for women who no longer go to church Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wisdom of Serpents: Hildegard Von Bingen and Her Darkest Hour Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCurrent Research in Egyptology 2011: Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDissociation in Late Modern America: A Defense Against Soul? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOccult Germany: Old Gods, Mystics, and Magicians Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHymn to King Helios Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes (Spanish and Portuguese Folklore) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Modern History For You
The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Notebook Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Little Red Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A History of the American People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Story of the Trapp Family Singers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Mother, a Serial Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Every Person Should Know About War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAbout Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All But My Life: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Night to Remember: The Sinking of the Titanic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Profiles in Courage: Deluxe Modern Classic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Titanic Chronicles: A Night to Remember and The Night Lives On Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Risk on the Table
0 ratings0 reviews