Food fights: how history matters to contemporary food debates
Introduction / Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker -- Producing food. Savior or monster? The truth about genetically engineered agriculture / Margaret Mellon -- Born in the U.S.A.: the Americanness of industrial agriculture / Peter A. Coclanis -- Food activism: a critical history / Steve Striffler -- Choosing food. Can 'taste' be separated from social class? / S. Margot Finn -- The standard of taste debate: how do we decide what tastes best? / Charles C. Ludington -- What does it mean to eat right? Nutrition, science, and society / Charlotte Biltekoff -- Regulating food. Who should be responsible for food safety? Oysters as a case study / Matthew Morse Booker -- U.S. farm and food subsidies: a short history of a long controversy / Sarah Ludington -- Gendering food. what should babies eat and whose business is it? / Amy Bentley -- Home, cooking: why gender matters to food politics / Tracey Deutsch -- Cooking and eating food. Is thinking critically about food essential to a good life? / Robert T. Valgenti -- A plea for culinary luddism / Ken Albala -- A plea for culinary modernism: why we should love fast, modern, processed food (with a new postscript) / Rachel Laudan.