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The food police : a well-fed manifesto about the politics of your plate / Jayson Lusk.

Lusk, Jayson. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780307987037 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0307987035 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780307987051 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0307987051 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 230 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Forum, c2013.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-222) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A skeptical foodie -- The price of piety -- From cops to robbers : a brief history of food progressivism -- Are you smart enough to know what to eat? -- The fashion food police : organic, the status food -- Franken-fears -- The follies of farm policy -- The thin logic of fat taxes -- The locavore's dilemma -- The future of food.
Subject: Nutrition > Government policy.

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The Food Police : A Well-Fed Manifesto about the Politics of Your Plate
The Food Police : A Well-Fed Manifesto about the Politics of Your Plate
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The Food Police : A Well-Fed Manifesto about the Politics of Your Plate

JAYSON LUSK is a professor and the Willard Sparks Endowed Chair in the agricultural economics department at Oklahoma State University. In the past ten years, Lusk has published more than one hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to consumer behavior and food marketing and policy. By many accounts, he is the most cited and most prolific food economist of his generation.


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