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Andrew Fisher: Big hunger: the unholy alliance between corporate America and anti-hunger groups

Andrew Fisher: Big hunger: the unholy alliance between corporate America and anti-hunger groups Agric Hum Values (2018) 35:733–734 DOI 10.1007/s10460-017-9831-7 Andrew Fisher: Big hunger: the unholy alliance between corporate America and anti-hunger groups MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2017, 360 pp, ISBN 9780262036085 Diane K. Smith   Accepted: 23 September 2017 / Published online: 6 October 2017 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017 Visits to a food pantry has become a strategy for many underlying cause of food insecurity—poverty and lack of families with limited resources to extend their food budget living wage jobs. to meet their food and calorie needs, though they are not In the chapter titled “SNAP’s Identity Crisis”, Fisher always finding optimal nutrition, consumer choice, or dig- addresses the soda- SNAP controversy, challenging the anti- nity. Andrew Fisher has provided food for thought in his new hunger movement to prioritize obesity and diabetes at the book, Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate same level as food insecurity. He describes how the public America and Anti-hunger Groups. The book takes the reader health sector perceives “Big Food” as a predator—con- down memory lane, when, in the early 1980s the nexus tributing to the fattening of Americans with cheap, highly between the loss of manufacturing jobs, a recession, and processed foods. On the other hand, anti-hunger http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Andrew Fisher: Big hunger: the unholy alliance between corporate America and anti-hunger groups

Smith, Diane
Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 35 (3) – Oct 6, 2017
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2017 by Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
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Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
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0889-048X
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1572-8366
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10.1007/s10460-017-9831-7
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Agric Hum Values (2018) 35:733–734 DOI 10.1007/s10460-017-9831-7 Andrew Fisher: Big hunger: the unholy alliance between corporate America and anti-hunger groups MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2017, 360 pp, ISBN 9780262036085 Diane K. Smith   Accepted: 23 September 2017 / Published online: 6 October 2017 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017 Visits to a food pantry has become a strategy for many underlying cause of food insecurity—poverty and lack of families with limited resources to extend their food budget living wage jobs. to meet their food and calorie needs, though they are not In the chapter titled “SNAP’s Identity Crisis”, Fisher always finding optimal nutrition, consumer choice, or dig- addresses the soda- SNAP controversy, challenging the anti- nity. Andrew Fisher has provided food for thought in his new hunger movement to prioritize obesity and diabetes at the book, Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate same level as food insecurity. He describes how the public America and Anti-hunger Groups. The book takes the reader health sector perceives “Big Food” as a predator—con- down memory lane, when, in the early 1980s the nexus tributing to the fattening of Americans with cheap, highly between the loss of manufacturing jobs, a recession, and processed foods. On the other hand, anti-hunger

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