Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine (Record no. 294485)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780745327402
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 333.7 COX-S .BD
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Stan Cox
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Pluto Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2008
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 219 pages ; 22 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Health care's malignant growth -- "If they build it, we'll fill it" -- An unhealthy industry -- Growing pains -- Those bad apples -- Green health care? -- The model wealth creator -- 2. Feeling OK? Are you sure? -- Disease mongering -- Direct-to-patient, direct-to-doctor -- 3. Side effects may be severe -- Colorful India -- Side effects -- Cracking down? -- 4. Swallowing the Earth whole -- Caution : this diet is not for everyone -- Appearances and reality -- All the fish in the sea -- A self-fattening industry -- 5. "Agroterrorists" can take a vacation -- The industrialized farm economy -- Hazards of food production -- Who wants to take away our freedom? -- 6. Hunger for natural gas -- Nitrogen, human existence, and economic logic -- Gas : so good it's bad -- Coal : a lousy plan B -- Full Jacuzzis, empty stomachs -- Nitrogen : too little, too much -- Needs and wants -- 7. Down-to-a-trickle economics -- Dimming, global and local -- Dark horizon -- The 66,000-lb gorilla in the living room -- 8. Supernatural food -- Goliath junior vs. Goliath senior -- Shop where you work? -- Industrial-strength organic -- Other routes -- A gaping hole -- 9. The world is your kitchen -- Some of the planet's toughest little molecules -- Turning up the heat on Teflon -- Chemical stewardship -- Paths of least resistance -- The chemical amnesty program -- 10. Political impossibility vs. biological impossibility -- Three big books -- Efficiency -- The European mirage -- Different kinds of impossibility -- Notes -- Suggested reading -- Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "Scientist Stan Cox expertly draws out the strong link between Western big business and environmental destruction. This is a shocking account of the huge damage that drug manufacturers and large food corporations are inflicting on the health of people and crops worldwide. Companies discussed include Wal-Mart, GlaxoSmithKline, Tyson Foods and Monsanto. On issues ranging from the poisoning of water supplies in South Asia to natural gas depletion and how it threatens global food supplies, Cox shows how the demand for profits is always put above the public interest."
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Food industry and trade -- Environmental aspects. Food industry and trade. Medical care -- Environmental aspects.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 01/09/2015   333.7 COX-S .BD DCB1106 01/09/2015 19/07/2019 Book