أطعموا الناس.. لماذا يُعدّ الطعام المحلي جيدا وكيف يُمكن تحسينه؟

Why are Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other ardent local food advocates so wrong about the “slow food” approach to food in America, and why could Waffle House save us all? “This book is food for your mind, imagining more democratic and delicious ways to satisfy the hunger of us all,” says Astra Taylor, author of “Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It Does.” The food industry is a major driver of climate change, pollution, obesity, animal suffering and worker exploitation. Many food writers blame the industrial food system and advise individual consumers to solve these problems by buying local, artisanal foods from small farmers, a solution that most Americans cannot afford. But, as food policy experts Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg remind us, modern technology has made food more abundant, diverse, and delicious than at any time in history. In their book "Feed the People!", they argue that modern food pleasures, like Waffle House, and the industrial systems that enable them, are actually good. With smart technology and good policies, we can improve it further. Dutkiewicz and Rosenberg traveled across the United States to meet the people who are changing the way we prepare and eat, from the innovators of plant-based burgers to the chefs introducing free school lunches to the labor organizers who unionize fast-food workers. They show that building a diet that works for everyone requires more than just eating vegetables. A book invites you