Food Fight by Stuart Gillespie
*A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Selection*"Scholarly, literate and deeply moving, this isn't just a good read, it's an essential reference for anyone hoping to understand the food system, why it's broken and how we might imagine fixing it."--Chris Van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed People
Food is life but our food system is killing us. Designed in a different century for a different purpose--to mass-produce cheap calories to prevent famine--it's now generating obesity, ill-health and premature death. We need to transform it, into one that is capable of nourishing all eight billion of us and the planet we live on.
In Food Fight, Stuart Gillespie reveals how the food system we once relied upon for global nutrition has warped into the very thing making us sick. From its origins in colonial plunder, through the last few decades of neoliberalism, the system now lies in the tight grip of a handful of powerful transnationals whose playbook is geared to profit at any cost.
Both unflinching exposé and revolutionary call to arms, Food Fight shines a light inside the black box of politics and power and, crucially, maps a way towards a new system that gives us hope for a future of global health and justice.
Stuart Gillespie, Reader in English Literature, University of Glasgow Stuart Gillespie is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow whose research interests lie in English literary classicism and translation. He is the founding editor of Translation and Literature (Edinburgh UP, 1992-present), now the pre-eminent academic journal in this field, and
was from 2001 joint general editor of the Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, co-editing two of its five volumes. There followed The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (co-edited with Philip Hardie; CUP, 2007) and the monograph English Translation and Classical Reception: Towards a New
Literary History (Wiley, 2011), the first book to address a range of English classical translations found only in manuscript.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781639369553 |
| ISBN 10 | 1639369554 |
| Title | Food Fight |
| Author | Stuart Gillespie |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pegasus Books |
| Year published | 2025-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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