Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal

by Tristram Stuart

Book Overview

But there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become one of the world's most pressing environmental and social problems. Waste traces the problem around the globe from the top to the bottom of the food production chain. Stuart's journey takes him from the streets of New York to China, Pakistan and Japan and back to his home in England. Introducing us to foraging pigs, potato farmers and food industry CEOs, Stuart encounters grotesque...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393068366
• ISBN13: 9780393068368
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"