Nutrition, Inequality and Agriculture: Contested Models of Degenerative Disease in Chiapas, Mexico

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Author:

Ronald Nigh, CIESAS-Sureste

Subject:

Social Sciences

Institution Name:

Latin America Learning

Collection:

Michigan State University

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

Abstract:

The industrial agro-food system has had two significant impacts on world public health: deteriorating human and animal nutrition due to poor food quality and the emergence of new infectious diseases arising from industrial animal production facilities and centralized food processing facilities. This situation is widely misrepresented in media coverage of public health issues. The corporate food system promotes the consumption of high levels of animal protein and processed foods, produced massively at low cost. With the expansion of the global economy, this

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English

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