*Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies & Culture
*Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture* By Kristin Lawless, St. Martin's Press. One of Bustle's "17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In June 2018" • One of The Revelator's "16 New Environmental Books for June" • One of Equinox's "5 Books High Performers Should Read in June."
From the voice of a new generation of food activists, a passionate and deeply-researched call for a new food movement.
If you think buying organic from Whole Foods is protecting you, you're wrong. Our food—even what we're told is good for us—has changed for the worse in the past 100 years, its nutritional content deteriorating due to industrial farming and its composition altered due to the addition of thousands of chemicals from pesticides to packaging. We simply no longer know what we’re eating.
In Formerly Known as Food, Kristin Lawless argues that, because of the degradation of our diet, our bodies are literally changing from the inside out. The billion-dollar food industry is reshaping our food preferences, altering our brains, changing the composition of our microbiota, and even affecting the expression of our genes. Lawless chronicles how this is happening and what it means for our bodies, health, and survival. An independent journalist and nutrition expert, Lawless is emerging as the voice of a new generation of food thinkers. After years of "eat this, not that" advice from doctors, journalists, and food faddists, she offers something completely different. Lawless presents a comprehensive explanation of the problem—going beyond nutrition to issues of food choice, class, race, and … More…
- REVIEWS, Praise for Formerly Known As Food: "This well-researched study is sure to sound alarms and spark changes." —Booklist
"This insightful book provides critical, transformative, and scientifically supported opportunities to restore our society’s health." —Dr. Binoy K. Singh, Associate Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, Northwell Health, Lenox Hill
"In this revelatory survey of the dangers of the industrial food system, Lawless offers crucial tools for navigating it safely. The best ones have nothing to do with shopping advice: she asks us to think holistically about food, why it can't be separated from other struggles for justice, and what it means to demand transformative change." —Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything
"Lawless takes us where few food critics dare to go. She shows how society can prioritize the time and other resources for all to eat well, from breastfeeding to healthy old age, over the corporate interests of Big Ag and Big Food." ?Selma James, author of Sex, Race, and Class
“At age 57, I’m seeing friends 10 to 15 years younger succumb to diseases that used to plague our elders at 65 plus. But why? Lawless provides answers in this great and necessary book.” —Chuck D, Raptivist and founder of Public Enemy
"Powerful.... will change the way you think about what is healthy food and ultimately help prevent heart attacks and strokes and possibly even save your life." —Dr. Dennis Goodman, Clinical Professor of M… More…
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250078315
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*WATCH-VIDEO* C-SPAN BOOK TALK, KRISTIN LAWLESS: "FORMERLY KNOWN AS FOOD."
https://www.c-span.org/video/?447134-2/formerly-food
June 19, 2018, "Formerly Known as Food," Journalist Kristin Lawless chronicled how food has changed over the past 100 years and the effect it is having on our bodies. ~ Excellent in-depth discussion and Q & A.
