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32%OFFStan Cox - Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine - 9780745327402 - V9780745327402
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Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine

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Description for Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine Paperback. Shows how food and drug companies are destroying the planet and the health of the population. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: KNDF; KNDP; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 263.
Neoliberals often point to improvements in public health and nutrition as examples of globalisation's success, but this book argues that the corporate food and medicine industries are destroying environments and ruining living conditions across the world.

Scientist Stan Cox expertly draws out the strong link between Western big business and environmental destruction. This is a shocking account of the huge damage that drug manufacturers and large food corporations are inflicting on the health of people and crops worldwide. Companies discussed include Wal-Mart, GlaxoSmithKline, Tyson Foods and Monsanto. On issues ranging from the poisoning of water supplies ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745327402
SKU
V9780745327402
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Stan Cox
Stan Cox is a senior scientist at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas. He worked for the US Department of Agriculture from 1984 to 1996 and has a Ph.D. in plant genetics. He is the author of Sick Planet (Pluto, 2008).

Reviews for Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine
'Stan Cox, scientifically accomplished and politically astute, casts a sharp eye on the deadly affliction that threatens our planet, and identifies the penetration of capital into all aspects of life as the pathogen'
Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature 'Cox's revelatory book skilfully charts the intersections between the medical industry and the chemical agriculture industry. There are ... Read more

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