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008			191011s2020 ilu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2019046573
020			_a9780226697109 (hardback)
020			_z9780226705965 _q(ebook)
040			_aBLR _beng _erda _cDLC
082	0	0	_a363.80941 OTT _223 _b016092
100	1		_aOtter, Chris _q(Christopher James), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDiet for a large planet : _bindustrial Britain, food systems, and world ecology / _cChris Otter.
263			_a2005
264		1	_aChicago ; London : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c2020.
300			_a411 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aMeat -- Wheat -- Sugar -- Risk -- Violence -- Metabolism -- Bodies -- Earth -- Acceleration.
520			_a"In this magisterial study, Chris Otter traces Britain's transition to a diet rich in animal proteins and refined carbohydrates like wheat and sugar, a diet that required more acreage than that of Britain itself and that, if followed everywhere, would soon deplete the planet's resources-as the title announces, this was truly a "diet for a large planet." From the late 1700s to the end of World War II, Otter accounts for the structures, practices, and ideologies generated by Britain's nutrition transition. He shows how Britain was the first nation to undergo the population explosion, urbanization, and industrialization we associate with modernity, and how it managed the unprecedented problem of how to feed its growing population. Its radical solution would be to outsource its food production, leading away from a locally produced, plant-based diet to one reliant on global markets, international trade networks, and enormous agro-food systems that would have planetary effects on famine, war, the world economy, and the wider earth-system. Not only did this phase in Britain's history make the consumption of meat, white bread, sugar, and butter a coveted diet, linked to development, luxury, and power--it also opened up a new phase in economic history, one whose dramatic effects endure to this day, whether in terms of health problems, eating disorders, or the seemingly endless world food crisis"--
650		0	_aDiet _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aDiet _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aFood consumption _zGreat Britain _xHistory.
650		0	_aNutrition _zGreat Britain _xHistory.
650		0	_aFood supply _zGreat Britain _xHistory.
650		0	_aHuman ecology _zGreat Britain _xHistory.
650		0	_aHuman ecology _xHistory.
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