Robert Albritton 
Let Them Eat Junk [EPUB ebook] 
How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity

This book to analyses the food industry from a Marxist perspective.



Let The Eat Junk argues that the capitalist system, far from delivering on the promise of cheap, nutritious food for all, has created a world where 25% of the world population are over-fed and 25% are hungry. This malnourishment of 50% of the world’s population is explained systematically, a refreshing change from accounts that focus on cultural factors and individual greed. Robert Albritton details the economic relations and connections that have put us in a situation of simultaneous oversupply and undersupply of food.



This explosive book provides yet more evidence that the human cost of capitalism is much bigger than those in power will admit.

Tabella dei contenuti

Preface

Part I Introduction

1. Introduction

Part II Understanding Capitalism

2. The Management of Agriculture and Food by Capital’s

Deep Structures

3. The Phase of Consumerism and the US Roots of the

Current Agriculture and Food Regimes

Part III The Historical Analysis of the US-Centred

Global Food Regime

4. The Food Regime and Consumers’ Health

5. The Health of Agriculture and Food Workers

6. Agriculture, Food Provisioning and the Environment

7. Food, Marketing and Choice in the United States

8. Corporate Power, Food and Liberal Democracy

Part IV Conclusions

9. Agriculture, Food and the Fight for Democracy,

Social Justice, Health and Sustainability

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Circa l’autore

Robert Albritton is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has published seven books on Marxist theory, including Let Them Eat Junk (Pluto, 2009) and Economics Transformed (Pluto, 2009).