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Most of the energy you are using to read this sentence probably came from three grasses. Rice, wheat and maize were once scrappy wild plants, and the way people tamed them, grew them and shared them still decides who eats and who goes hungry. The hardest lesson in this subject is that famines are rarely just a matter of too little food. People have starved beside full warehouses, while grain from their own fields was loaded onto ships bound for somewhere else.
You will follow food from the first planted fields to the winter strawberry in a supermarket, and weigh the fights over miracle wheat, engineered papayas, organic farms, factory farms and meatless diets, with each side given its strongest case. Along the way you will meet botanists who starved rather than eat the seeds they guarded, and a court in India that turned school lunch into a right. The payoff is sharper questions about any meal, and a ready answer for anyone who says hunger is simply nature's fault.
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