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Preface to the Second Edition 1
1 Introduction 9
Our Big Fat Contradiction 9
Arcadia Lost 14
About Joe 16
An Hourglass Figure 19
Ways of Being Free 23
The Menu of Chapters 26
2 A Rural Autopsy 29
And on That Farm He Had a Wife 29
Crooked Fictions 35
Debtward Ho 39
After Despair 42
Did the WTO Kill Lee Kyung Hae? 45
Some Farmers Are Pushed 49
But Where Does It Stop? 51
3 You Have Become Mexican 55
NAFTA and After 56
Corn for the Rich Men Only 62
Once Were Farmers 66
Beyond a Border 70
The Wrong Explanation 73
Bringing Agriculture to the City of Angels 79
Lee Again 81
4 'Just a Cry for Bread' 83
A Secret History of Refreshment 84
Rhodes' Conundrum 92
The Cold War for Food 96
After Food Aid 99
The World Trade Organization 104
5 The Customer is Our Enemy: A Brief Introduction to Food System Business 107
Permanent Banana Republic: The United Fruit Company 107
Varieties of Consolidation 110
The Market for Political Favour 116
Dwayne Andreas and the Currying of National Interest 119
6 Better Living through Chemistry 129
The Knowledge and the Initiative 130
Who Knows What 141
Corporations Address the Needs of the Poor 145
I'd Like to Thank the Academy 151
For Africa! 156
Making up Makhathini 162
Better Through Living Chemistry 167
7 Glycine Rex 173
Secret Ingredient 173
A Whole Hill of Beans 176
Learning the Soy Samba 181
The Perfect Storm 188
Blairo Maggi-Poster Soy 194
The View from Afar 201
The Perils of National Development 208
The World's Most Important Social Movement 211
Bringing It Home 219
8 Checking out of Supermarkets 221
The Self-Serving Store 222
Almost Orwell 229
666 and All That 232
Discipline in the Aisles 236
Walmart 237
Supply Chain-gangs 242
The Contradictions of Convenience 243
Every Cloud Has a Redlining 248
Shelves of Love 250
In the Garden of the Black Panthers 253
9 Chosen by Bunnies 259
On Places and Taste and Food 259
Food Is from Mars 261
Wheat is Murder 265
Hooked on TV Dinners 268
The Now of Chow 272
War on the Obese 278
Feeling the Burn 283
Your Pace or Mine? 286
Anti-Malbouffe 292
10 Conclusion 299
Inside the Hourglass 299
It's Just We, Ourselves and Us 306
Follow the Leader 321
Notes 325
References 367
Acknowledgements 403
Permissions 409
Index 411
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