What's the Big Idea?: What's The Big Idea? Food

by Emily Moore (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $24.04

  We all need to eat to survive, but do you know where the food on your plate come from? Or, why there are so many hungry people in the world? This book presents a discussion of issues such as hunger, famine, factory farming and diseases such as BSE and E-coli. It introduces the history of food production, going on to cover world food trading and how this affects the developing world. Finally it looks to the future, organic farming and genetic engineering.