The Hunger Machine by Jon Bennett

The Hunger Machine by Jon Bennett

The number of people who die of malnutrition each year is equivalent to dropping a Hiroshima bomb every three days. This horrifying fact is explored by Jon Bennett and Susan George in this book, published to coincide with the Channel Four and Yorkshire Television series "The Politics of Food". This study dissects the anatomy of world starvation, showing how it is manufactured by many of the policies of powerful industrial nations; sustained by the self-interest and narrow visions of many elites in the Third World; and in control of the destinies of those least able to resist it. It challenges the myths that hunger is caused by over-population, inadequate food resources and bad weather. The book clearly demonstrates that there is not only adequate food produced today to feed the world's population, but that there is enough to feed the population of the year 2000. This book shows that it is how we produce and distribute our food which determines who shall live and who shall die. Jon Bennett uses detailed case studies of the Sudan, Bangladesh, Nicaragua and Brazil to examine the varying causes of hunger and the powerful forces which operate daily to privilege some and destroy others. He and Susan George conclude by taking a positive look at alternative ways of organizing the production and distribution of food. The book is extensively illustrated with photographs, maps and figures. It is a sobering but not relentlessly pessimistic book and an excellent permanent record of the debates which have been so prominent in the media in recent months.

George, Susan: - Susan George is an American children's book author from Fairfax, Virginia. Her first book, Chris, the Tiny-Tailed Tiger, is based on a story her husband wrote in 1992 when he was in second grade. Now that she is a mother, Susan decided there was no better time to honor her husband and take his work to a new level by adding her unique flair. Writing began as a hobby, thanks to the COVID-19 quarantine, but the deeper she got into creating the story, the more determined she became to finish the book and gift it to her daughter, Riley. Filled with motherly love, Susan took a step away from her daytime job as a tax accountant to make her family happy by creating a book that will be enjoyed by many for years to come.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780745604459
ISBN 10	0745604455
Titel	The Hunger Machine
Autor	Jon Bennett
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Polity Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1987-09-17
Seitenanzahl	240
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
Hinweis	Nicht verfügbar