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On Hunger

On Hunger Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic - California Studies in Food and Culture

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In this book, Dana Simmons explores the enduring production of hunger in US history. Hunger, in the modern United States, became a technology-a weapon, a scientific method, and a policy instrument. During the nineteenth century, state agents and private citizens colluded in large-scale campaigns of ethnic cleansing using hunger and food deprivation. In the twentieth century, officials enacted policies and rules that made incarcerated people, welfare recipients, and beneficiaries of foreign food aid hungry by design, in order to modify their behavior. With the advent of ultraprocessed foods, food manufacturers designed products to stimulate cravings and consumption at the expense of public health. Taking us inside the labs of researchers devoted to understanding hunger as a biological and social phenomenon, On Hunger examines the continuing struggle to produce, suppress, or control hunger in America.

Book information

ISBN: 9780520412989
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 363.85610973
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 234
Weight: 363g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 18mm