Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- General introduction -- A framework for understanding capitalism -- Part II: Understanding -- 2. The Management of Agriculture and Food by Capital's Deep Structures -- Capital's profit orientation -- Capital, time and speed -- Capital, space and homogenization -- Capital and workers -- Capital and underconsumption -- Capital, oligopoly and globalization -- Capital and subjectivity -- Conclusions -- 3. The Phase of Consumerism and the US Roots of the Current Agriculture and Food Regimes -- Consumerism's profit orientation: petroleum, cars, suburbs and television -- Consumerism, time, and speed: unchecked toxicity and life on the run -- Consumerism, space and homogenization, suburbanization and monocultures -- Consumerism and workers: hiding the health costs of hazardous working conditions and low wages -- Consumerism and underconsumption: new forms of debt expansion and advertising -- Consumerism, oligopoly and globalization: a command economy of corporations -- Consumerism and subjectivity: the politics of fear -- Conclusions -- Part III: The Historical Analysis of the US-Centred Global Food Regime -- 4. The Food Regime and Consumer's Health -- Capitalist agriculture -- The case of tobacco -- The global food regime: a story of irrationality -- The obesity "epidemic" -- Sugar -- Meatification and fat consumption -- Hunger and starvation -- Salt -- Soy -- Pesticides -- Food additives -- Microorganisms -- Loss of nutrients -- Genetically modified organisms -- Supermarkets -- Fast food chains -- Conclusions -- 5. The Health of Agriculture and Food Workers -- Workers in the US agricultural and food systems -- Workers in the agricultural and food systems of developing countries -- Conclusions -- 6. Agriculture, Food Provisioning and the Environment -- Peak oil and biofuels.

Global warming -- Land and deforestation -- Fresh water -- The oceans -- Species loss -- Genetically modified organisms -- Waste -- Conclusions -- 7. Food, Marketing and Choice in the United States -- Choice and the case of tobacco -- Marketing -- Marketing to children -- Choosing junk foods -- Consumer sovereignty -- Conclusions -- 8. Corporate Power, Food and Liberal Democracy -- Corporations and government -- Corporations and the legal system -- Corporations and science -- Conclusions -- Part IV: Conclusions -- 9. Agriculture, Food and the Fight for Democracy, Social Justice, Health and Sustainability -- Capitalism's food failures -- Movements for change -- Toward a more effective and accountable public sector -- More accountable corporations -- Making markets democractically accountable -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.