The Problem with Feeding Cities
The Problem with Feeding Cities
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供给城市的问题
DOI：
10.7208/chicago/9780226703107.001.0001
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
A. Deener
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作者：
A. Deener
对于大多数人来说，去杂货店购物是一项平凡的活动。很少有人停下来思考庞大的全球基础设施，使人们能够在隆冬时节在费城的一家超市购买智利葡萄。然而，每一种食物都代表着一个由农业、制造业、航运、物流、零售和非营利组织组成的连锁系统，控制着我们吃什么或不吃什么。 《城市供养问题》是对上个世纪这个非凡的丰富和便利的网络如何形成的社会学和历史检验。它着眼于美国的粮食系统如何从养活社区转变为养活整个国家，并揭示了一个曾经满足基本需求的过程如何转变为专注于满足利润率。这也是一个关于这个系统如何无法养活人类的故事，特别是在创造食物沙漠方面。安德鲁·迪纳（Andrew Deener）表明，食品获取问题是基础设施失败的结果，这些失败源于市场和城市的发展方式、分配系统的建立方式以及组织如何协调食品的质量和流动。他介绍了通过食物链相连的数百人，从农民、批发商和超市高管，到全球托运人、物流专家和冷藏运营商，再到食品银行员工和公共卫生倡导者。这本书将改变我们看待杂货店旅行的方式，并将鼓励我们所有人重新思考我们在这个国家的饮食方式。
For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the middle of winter. Yet every piece of food represents an interlocking system of agriculture, manufacturing, shipping, logistics, retailing, and nonprofits that controls what we eat—or don’t. The Problem with Feeding Cities is a sociological and historical examination of how this remarkable network of abundance and convenience came into being over the last century. It looks at how the US food system transformed from feeding communities to feeding the entire nation, and it reveals how a process that was once about fulfilling basic needs became focused on satisfying profit margins. It is also a story of how this system fails to feed people, especially in the creation of food deserts. Andrew Deener shows that problems with food access are the result of infrastructural failings stemming from how markets and cities were developed, how distribution systems were built, and how organizations coordinate the quality and movement of food. He profiles hundreds of people connected through the food chain, from farmers, wholesalers, and supermarket executives, to global shippers, logistics experts, and cold-storage operators, to food bank employees and public health advocates. It is a book that will change the way we see our grocery store trips and will encourage us all to rethink the way we eat in this country.