Technological eating, or, Where does the fish-finger point? / Magnus Pyke, PhD FIBiol FRIC FRSE.

Author
Pyke, Magnus [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London : John Murray, [1972]
  • London : Printed ... by Camelot Press Ltd.
  • ©1972
Description
vii, 114 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm

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    "New ways of eating are a major factor in the growth of a new society. In a lively study of how these changes have come about and how they affect us today Magnus Pyke shows how far we have come in a very short time and where we may soon go. Technology has completely changed our diet, substituting cornflakes for porridge, canned pineapples all the year round for fruit in season, spray-dried coffee for tea and dehydrated peas for cabbage: it has also changed much more. It has had a profound effect on the food producers, from the human slaves on the plantations to the animal prisoners of today's factory farms. It has altered the scale and methods of farming in countless ways. It has produced strains of cereal that are such improvements on nature's originals that they hold promise of reorienting whole economies. It has transformed our food shops, and prepared and packaged food in 1001 different varieties. Finally, the increased machine vending of standard productds is already liberating both young and old from mealtimes and the family table."--Front flap of dust jacket.
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    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • (from table of contents) Traffic is people
    • The food producers
    • Change in the market place
    • Agribusiness supersedes farming
    • Ethical implications
    • Uniformity and convenience
    • The disappearance of mealtimes
    • The future.
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    Where does the fish-finger point?
    ISBN
    • 0719525764 (hardcover)
    • 9780719525766 (hardcover)
    LCCN
    72179380
    OCLC
    333879
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