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

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

by Emily Moore (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Published: 21 Jan 1999

ISBN 10: 0340724056
ISBN 13: 9780340724057

Author Bio
Emily currently works full-time at the Guardian newspaper as a journalist on the 'Education Guardian' supplement.