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THE END OF FOOD by Paul Roberts Bloomsbury, London, UK, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7475-8881-8 (408pp tpb) Available: www.bloomsbury.com; www.allenandunwin.com e'll be paying a costly price if we don't address the mess that industrialised, globalised food production, distribution and retailing has become, says Paul Roberts in The End of Food. TE — A | ~ FOOD PAUL ROBERTS Author of the bestselling The End of Oil, he argues that despite the fact that the food system has evolved like other economic sectors, food itself is basically not an economic phenomenon and is inherently unsuited to mass production and globalisation. Industrial-scale food production is reaching its limit in terms of supply and is fraught with concerns over health and safety, declining soil quality and water availability, rising costs of energy and inputs, changing climate and increasingly more land being devoted to biofuel production. In part one, Roberts explores the origins and operations of the food system from our carnivorous beginnings to the first agricultural revolution and on to latter-day industrialisation with its declining nutritional standards and the rise of obesity and diabetes. In the second part he examines the global food trade, the paradox of plentitude with the exclusion of a billion hungry mouths, and the conditions that could make a pandemic inevitable. In the final part he looks at ways to resolve these impasses, with reference to encouraging more local & REVIEWS |[Sickanaiirea of being. unwell THE END OF FOOD or at least regional food production and by Paul Roberts distribution systems, tackling problems Bloomsbury, London, UK, 2008 of organic versus transgenic food ISBN 978-0-7475-8881-8 (408pp tpb) production and considering political, Available: www.bloomsbury.com; economic and cultural realities. 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