Food Economics

This wide-ranging treatment of how money secretly influences our lives includes chapters on the many forms of money, why money is so easily worshipped, why money sometimes feels more important than life, hoarding money, the source of riches, inheritance, and the stock market. Crawford, a teller of entertaining tales, gathers stories and myths from around the world that help us understand why money is so much more than the useful tool that we may think it to be.

Despite exponential growth in the fishing industry, the global wild fish catch reached a plateau and stagnated. As numerous scientific reports showed, many fish stocks around the world collapsed, creating a genuine global overfishing crisis. Analyzing the ramifications of overfishing for the United States by investigating how fishers, seafood processors, retailers, government officials, and others have worked together to respond to the crisis, historian Mansel G. Blackford examines how these players took steps to make fishing in some American waters sustainable.

Did you know that subsidized goods often cost us more than we'd pay for them in the free market? In fact, we sometimes pay for goods that will never exist at all. It turns out that the free market in America is anything but. How did a system designed to safeguard American farmers turn into the nation's biggest scam?Most of us don't know what subsidies are and don't think they affect us directly, so we tune out. But they have an enormous impact on all of us.

This book explores the idea that table activities - the mealtime rituals of food preparation, serving, and dining - lay the foundation for a proper education on the value of civility, the importance of the common good, and what it means to be a good citizen. The arts of conversation and diplomatic speech are learned and practiced at tables, and a political history of food practices recasts thoughtfulness and generosity as virtues that enhance civil society and democracy.

For more than 30 years, Hank Cardello was an executive and adviser to some of the largest food and beverage corporations in the world. For more than 30 years, he watched as corporate profits - and America's waistlines - ballooned: fattening consumers meant fattening profits. Now, in this fascinating and timely book, Cardello offers a behind-the-scenes look at the business of food.

This audiobook explains based on science and facts how you can be the solution to the big crises we will face to cover our basic needs (food, water, health). It’s just a question of time before the next economic crisis. In the coming years, we will all directly suffer from climate change in one way or another including our kids and grandkids. The rich get richer, banks steal from us, while so many don’t even have decent food or health care.... There is an alternative system in which you can lead toward a solution to these crises.

Good Eats at the TEOTWAWKI Café, Volume 3: Making the Most of Grains in Your Food Storage elevates your food storage and preparedness game by sharing how to transform run-of-the-mill grains into savory and sweet dishes to nourish the body and soul. Budget-friendly basic recipes with modern twists feature easy-to-follow directions for flawless results in your daily bread. Bread is the staff of life, the original fast food (once it’s baked, that is). And yet, as critical as bread and cooked cereals are, there is so much more we can do with grains to nourish our families before, during, and...

The Good Eats series books focus on food storage and pantry preparedness for tough times, whether due to personal challenges like job loss, budget constraints, food allergies, or more widespread concerns like mounting inflation, political instability, or food insecurity. Food Storage Made Fabulous teaches basic food storage principles and provides recipes for fabulous food your family will love. Good Eats at the TEOTWAWKI Café, Volume 1, Making the Most of Powdered Milk in Your Food Storage is the premier food-storage masterclass for working miracles in all things dairy—milk, yogurt, ...

Biotechnology crop production area increased from 1.7 million hectares to 148 million hectares worldwide between 1996 and 2010. While genetically modified food is a contentious issue, the debates are usually limited to health and environmental concerns, ignoring the broader questions of social control that arise when food production methods become corporate-owned intellectual property.

The world food system is in crisis. Right now, just over one billion people in the world live in extreme poverty. Food shortages are not limited to third world countries and crops. Maybe genetic modification of food might solve the problem. Some people think this is the be-all and the end-all and cite this as a perfect solution for food shortages. This book takes a look at the economic crisis with special attention to the world food system.

Russia, China, and Australia all have competing interests that differ but are related, and this book discusses why. The Australia and New Zealand that we know today will leave the Commonwealth by 2050, and the government will be taken over democratically by the Han Chinese and resemble something similar to Singapore's "People's Action Party", which is a communistic entity that markets itself democratically. The reality is that Chinese immigrants are great because they are educated, come with money, and don't commit crimes; they are also supported by the largest economy and ethnic group in ...

Descubre recetas prácticas que se adaptan a tu día a día, con ingredientes fáciles de encontrar y pasos sencillos que cualquiera puede seguir, incluso si no tienes experiencia en la cocina. este libro incluye una variedad de opciones para satisfacer todos los gustos y ocasiones.

The story of dairying in Wisconsin is the story of how our very landscape and way of life were created. By making cows the center of our farm life and learning how to care for them, our ancestors launched a revolution that changed much more than the way farmers earned their living - it changed us. In Creating Dairyland, journalist, oral historian, and former dairyman Ed Janus opens the pages of the fascinating story of Wisconsin dairy farming.

The long war has brought hunger to Europe; some of her peoples stand constantly face to face with starvation. To meet all this great food need in Europe—and meeting it is an imperative military necessity—we must be very careful and economical in our food use here at home. We must eat less; we must waste nothing; we must equalize the distribution of what food we may retain for ourselves; we must prevent extortion and profiteering which make prices so high that the poor cannot buy the food they actually need; and we must try to produce more food.