| #484317 in Books | Rowman n Littlefield Publishers | 2002-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.12 x.61 x6.90l,1.35 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Tangled Routes|By Lucy Long|Deborah Barndt offers the best analysis I have read of the philosophical foundations that allowed North Americans to lose our connections with food. She explores how our approach to food represents a larger worldview that believes it is possible to reduce everything down to logical and quantifiable formulas. It also sees nature (and natural food and||The life histories of the women workers are insightful and compelling, and...the photographs are superb. (Book Digest)
Who could believe that the story of a tomato's northward journey could reveal the true heart of corporate globalization?
Where does our food come from? And what impact does its production have on the earth, on the women workers who move it from field to table, and on all who eat it? Tangled Routes follows a corporate tomato from a Mexican field through the United States to a Canadian table, examining in its wake the dynamic relationship between production and consumption, work and technology, health and environment, bio-diversity and cultural diversity.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail | Deborah Barndt. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
