Food Shock: The Truth About What We Put On Our Plate And What We Can Do To Change It

Author: Dianne Loughnan

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Price : 29.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781921966095
Publisher : Exisle Publishing (Australia)
Imprint : Exisle Publishing (Australia)
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Weight (g) : 0.435
Publication date : 30 April 2012
Dimensions : 235mm X 153mm X 15mm
Produced in : Australia
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Availability date : 31 July 2012
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'Food Shock' investigates how the vast majority of food in Australia today is mass-produced in an industrialised system. If you combine this with the as-yet-unknown effects of genetically modified crops, the water crisis, the continued sale of farming land to foreign interests, and the constant struggle of Australian farmers to survive in a "free-market" economy where overseas competitors are subsidised, it soon becomes evident that food production in Australia faces a very uncertain future.

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Dianne Loughnan is a former Queensland and NSW provincial newspaper journalist and now commercial beef producer. She has also worked for the Queensland Landcare movement and has consulted to rural industries as a public relations practitioner. She currently lives and works with her husband and two children on their cattle property near Roma in southern inland Queensland.