The World of Soy (The Food Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252033418 ISBN 13: 9780252033414

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2008

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As the most ecologically efficient and economical source of complete protein in human food, soy is gradually attracting more use in the American diet for its nutritional and financial value. Derived from soybean plants--the leading export crop of the United States and the world's most traded crop--soy produced for human consumption is part of a global enterprise affecting the likes of farmers, economists, dieticians, and grocery shoppers. An international group of expert food specialists--including an agricultural economist, an agricultural sociologist, a former Peace Corps development expert, and numerous food anthropologists and agricultural historians--discusses important issues central to soy production and consumption: genetically engineered soybeans, increasing soybean cultivation, soyfood marketing techniques, the use of soybeans as an important soil restorative, and the rendering of soybeans for human consumption.

Contributors are Katarzyna Cwiertka, Christine M. Du Bois, H. T. Huang, Lawrence Kaplan, Jian-Hua Mao, Sidney W. Mintz, Akiko Moriya, Can Van Nguyen, Donald Z. Osborn, Erino Ozeki, Myra Sidharta, Ivan Sergio Freire de Sousa, Chee-Beng Tan, and Rita de Cássia Milagres Teixeira Vieira.

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Christine M. Du Bois is a manager for the Johns Hopkins Project on Soybeans and the author of Images of West Indian Immigrants in Mass Media: The Struggle for a Positive Ethnic Reputation.Chee-Beng Tan is head of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the author of Chinese Overseas: Comparative Cultural Issues.Sidney Mintz is the William L. Straus Jr. Professor Emeritus and a research professor of anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University and the author of Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom.

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252033418
• ISBN 13: 9780252033414
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 337
• Herausgeber: Du Bois Christine M., Tan Chee Beng, Mintz Sidney Wilfred
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