Food security : from excess to enough / Ralph C. Martin and Elizabeth May
- Author
- Martin, Ralph C. (Ralph Cameron), 1953-
- Published
- [Place of publication not identified] : A J. Patrick Boyer Book, 2019.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- May, Elizabeth
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- Summary
- Canadians are failing to balance reasonable food consumption with sufficient and sustainable production. The modern agricultural system is producing more and more food. Too much food. The cost is enormous: excess nutrients are contaminating the air and water; soil is being depleted; species loss is plunging us toward the sixth extinction; and farmers, racking up debt, are increasingly vulnerable to economic and climatic shifts. At the same time, people are consuming too much food. Two-thirds of health-care costs in Canada can be attributed to chronic diseases associated with unhealthy eating. And then there is the waste - householders, food processors, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers collectively waste 40 percent of the food produced. A radical rethink is required. We need to move from excess to enough.
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- ISBN
- 9781459744042 (electronic bk.)
1459744047
9781459744028
1459744020 (Trade Paper) - Note
- Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed October 14, 2019).
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