Indigestion

NON FICTION. PLANETA, 2013. 464 PAGES

What lies behind the food we eat?

Why don't cows eat grass? Why don't chicken farmers eat the chicken they produce? What dangers lurk in your salad? What's the story behind each succulent piece of sushi? What are the secret ingredients in processed foods? What is the relationship between a lack of wheat, social exclusion, the slaughter of indigenous peoples and natural catastrophes? Why are the figures for obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cancer rising all the time?
Food and nutrition have become two of the most pressing battlefields of our time involving corruption, scientific experimentation, financial speculation, weak states and powerful corporations, climate change, ecological breakdown and social upheaval.
Soledad Barruti presents a rigorous and disturbing investigation that explains why we are eating so badly and why things are getting worse but also how we can get back on the right track.