Open AccessSustainable Diets: How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System by Pamela Mason and Tim Lang
Author(s) -
Jennifer Sumner
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
canadian food studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2292-3071
DOI - 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.250
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , environmental ethics , anthropocene , food systems , perspective (graphical) , function (biology) , public health , sustainable agriculture , planet , order (exchange) , ecology , political science , sociology , sustainability , business , social science , biology , medicine , food security , agriculture , computer science , philosophy , nursing , physics , finance , artificial intelligence , evolutionary biology , astrophysics
This path-breaking book situates the thorny issue of diets firmly within what has been called the Anthropocene—the era of human-induced changes to the planet. Since many of these changes are associated with food production and consumption, the authors argue that we need to develop sustainable diets in order to reduce the negative impacts of the current global food system on the environment, as well as to improve public health. To this end, the book is informed by an ecological public health perspective, which “views health as a function of relationships, a web of connections between humans, planet and society.”