Food Is Different: Why We Must Get the Wto Out of Agriculture

by Peter M. Rosset

Book Overview

Why does our global food system gives us expensive, unhealthy and bad-tasting food, where we pay more for packaging and long-distance shipping than we do for the food itself? Why do farmers and peasants from around the world lead massive protests each and every time the World Trade Organization meets?

Peter Rosset explains how the runaway free trade policies and neoliberal economics of the WTO, American government and European Union kill farmers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842777556
• ISBN13: 9781842777558
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 3.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.9"