Cohen Benjamin R.
Cohen Benjamin R. - Pure Adulteration Cheating On Nature In The Age Of Manufactured Food - Paperback
Cohen Benjamin R. - Pure Adulteration Cheating On Nature In The Age Of Manufactured Food - Paperback
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Description: Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades at the turn of the twentieth century to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods in the United States. In the latter nineteenth century extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood obtained trusted and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration and its concerns have carried forward to today: How could you tell the food you bought was the food you thought you bought? Could something manufactured still be pure? Is it okay to manipulate nature far enough to produce new foods but not so far that you question its safety and health? How do you know where the line is? And who decides? In Pure Adulteration Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods and the perceived problems they wrought. Cohen follows farmers manufacturers grocers hucksters housewives politicians and scientific analysts as they struggled to demarcate and patrol the ever - contingent always contested border between purity and adulteration and as at the end of the nineteenth century the very notion of a pure food changed. In the end there is (and was) no natural prehuman distinction between pure and adulterated to uncover and enforce; we have to decide. Today's world is different from that of our nineteenth - century forebears in many ways but the challenge of policing the difference between acceptable and unacceptable practices remains central to daily decisions about the foods we eat how we produce them and what choices we make when buying them.
Title: Pure Adulteration Cheating On Nature In The Age Of Manufactured Food
Author(s): Cohen Benjamin R.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226816746
Pages: 320 Pages, 61 Halftones
Publication Date: 1/21/2022
Category: History
Description: Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades at the turn of the twentieth century to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods in the United States. In the latter nineteenth century extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood obtained trusted and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration and its concerns have carried forward to today: How could you tell the food you bought was the food you thought you bought? Could something manufactured still be pure? Is it okay to manipulate nature far enough to produce new foods but not so far that you question its safety and health? How do you know where the line is? And who decides? In Pure Adulteration Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods and the perceived problems they wrought. Cohen follows farmers manufacturers grocers hucksters housewives politicians and scientific analysts as they struggled to demarcate and patrol the ever - contingent always contested border between purity and adulteration and as at the end of the nineteenth century the very notion of a pure food changed. In the end there is (and was) no natural prehuman distinction between pure and adulterated to uncover and enforce; we have to decide. Today's world is different from that of our nineteenth - century forebears in many ways but the challenge of policing the difference between acceptable and unacceptable practices remains central to daily decisions about the foods we eat how we produce them and what choices we make when buying them.
Title: Pure Adulteration Cheating On Nature In The Age Of Manufactured Food
Author(s): Cohen Benjamin R.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226816746
Pages: 320 Pages, 61 Halftones
Publication Date: 1/21/2022
Category: History
