Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine Book

Acknowledgements     vii
Preface     viii
Health Care's Malignant Growth     1
"If they build it, we'll fill it"     3
An unhealthy industry     6
Growing pains     10
Those bad apples     13
Green health care?     15
The model wealth creator     19
Feeling OK? Are You Sure?     21
Disease mongering     22
Direct-to-patient, direct-to-doctor     27
Side Effects May be Severe     34
Colorful India     36
Side effects     39
Cracking down?     42
Swallowing the Earth Whole     47
Caution: this diet is not for everyone     48
Appearances and reality     50
All the fish in the sea     54
A self-fattening industry     63
"Agroterrorists" Can Take a Vacation     65
The industrialized farm economy     66
Hazards of food production     69
Who wants to take away our freedom?     76
Hunger for Natural Gas     85
Nitrogen, human existence, and economic logic     86
Gas: so good it's bad     88
Coal: a lousy plan B     91
Full jacuzzis, empty stomachs     94
Nitrogen: too little, too much     96
Needs and wants     99
Down-to-a-trickle Economics     103
Dimming, global and local     103
Dark horizon     107
The 66,000-lb gorilla in the living room     111
Supernatural Food     117
Goliath junior vs. Goliath senior     118
Shop where you work?     121
Industrial-strength organic     125
Other routes     127
A gaping hole     130
The World is Your Kitchen     134
Some of the planet's toughest little molecules     134
Turning up the heat on teflon     137
Chemical stewardship     144
Paths of least resistance     146
The chemical amnesty program     149
Political Impossibility vs. Biological Impossibility     154
Three big books     156
Efficiency     162
The European mirage     168
Different kinds of impossibility     172
Notes     176
Suggested Reading     209
Index     213