The Neoliberal Diet: Healthy Profits, Unhealthy People

This "remarkable, comprehensive" study of neoliberal agribusiness and the obesity epidemic "is critical reading for food studies scholars" (Contemporary Sociology).

Obesity rates are rising across the United States and beyond. While some claim that people simply eat too much "energy-dense" food while exercising too little, The Neoliberal Diet argues that the issue is larger than individual lifestyle choices. Since the 1980s, the shift toward neoliberal regulation has enabled agribusiness...