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Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine
"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...
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London
Pluto Press
2008
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Table of Contents:
- 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.