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Freegans: Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America

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Description for Freegans: Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.

If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to waste—while one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred increasing interest and action of late, but none so radical as that of the freegans, who live on what capitalism throws away—including food culled from supermarket dumpsters. Freegans is a close look at the people in this movement, offering a broader perspective on ethical consumption and the changing nature of capitalism.

Freegans object to the overconsumption and environmental degradation on which they claim our economic order depends, and ... Read more

Barnard’s analysis of this pressing concern reveals how waste is integrally bound up with our food system. At the same time, by showing that markets do not seamlessly translate preferences expressed at the cash register into changes in production, Freegans exposes the limits of consumer activism.


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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816698134
SKU
V9780816698134
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About Alex V. Barnard
Alex V. Barnard is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a food justice activist.

Reviews for Freegans: Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America
"Eat this book. If you’re lucky enough to find it in the trash, dig it out and bite in. It’s sociologically fresh and environmentally nutritious. Alex V. Barnard writes crisply and invitingly, and his analysis of the ‘fetishism of waste’ is novel and helpful. This is ethnography as it is meant to be: going through the trash and thrash of ... Read more

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