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OverviewNeoliberals 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 in South Asia to natural gas depletion and how it threatens global food supplies, Cox shows how the demand for profits is always put above the public interest. While individual efforts to 'shop for a better world' and conserve energy are laudable, Cox explains that they need to be accompanied by an economic system that is grounded in ecological sustainability if we are to find a cure for our Sick Planet. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stan CoxPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.261kg ISBN: 9780745327402ISBN 10: 0745327400 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 20 March 2008 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface 1. Health care's malignant growth 2. Feeling OK? Are you sure? 3. Side effects may be severe 4. Swallowing the Earth whole 5. 'Agroterrorists' can take a vacation 6. Down-to-a-trickle economics 7. Supernatural food 8. The world is your kitchen 9. Political impossibility vs. biological impossibility Notes Further Reading IndexReviews'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. Cox convincingly shows that only a radical attack on the roots of this disease can reverse the slide of our civilization into oblivion.'Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature'His book is a short, readable activists crib which ranges fluently across the environmental costs of bloated corporate health-care (and the human costs of overprescription and phoney medicalization), to the problem of industrial agriculture and 'better living through chemistry. Sam Urquhart, Guerrilla News Network Author InformationStan 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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