Foodopoly: the book for everyone that eats

Foodopoly presents the shocking account of how our food system has been hijacked by corporate power, and has driven out independent farmers and food processors in favor of the likes of Cargill, Tyson, Kraft, and ConAgra.Author Wenonah Hauter demonstrates how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic and environmental devastation in rural communities at home, to famines in countries overseas.

Foodopoly is a book for everyone that eats - and we all do. Hauter starts the book with an overview of American agrarian history - our nation's landscape hasn't always been dotted with large, monocultured farms. Hauter examines how a once-prolific agriculture industry consisting of small and medium-sized farmers and processors has transformed into a food system defined from seed to table by just several large corporations.

Hauter goes on to explain that the "cheap food" resulting from our industrial food system isn't so cheap, after all. We pay a hefty price tag in the form of deteriorating public health, disappearing soil, dangerously polluted land and water, and struggling farmers - all while large corporate agriculture companies rake in the profits.In the end, Hauter illustrates how solving this crisis will require an overhaul of the current system—a change that requires building political power, not just personal choice.