Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food - 1st Edition Hardcover by Frederick Kaufman (2012) | Food Industry Analysis, Modern Agriculture Critique | Perfect for Food Policy Students & Sustainability Advocates

Disturbing, eye-opening, and absolutely of the highest significant social import. Kaufman attaches a remarkably clear high definition wide-angle lens to the camera he points towards food at scale, which is what food is becoming more and more as he clearly demonstrates through this investigative narrative. Perhaps the best book of the decade, and it reads like a series of highly engaging investigative essays. It will likely go down as a must read for anyone who consideres themselves in-tune with the contemporary human condition. If that isn't enough, it will utterly challenge your understanding of what food is, GMO, hunger, scarcity, famine, and how the very essence of foods' value has been hijacked via an insidious financial-roach-motel of never ending rolling buy orders for a highly derived and abstracted mixed-commodities index that seems to be wrenching the value-function of food from its very object, and of which there is by design no mechanism for exit.