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Eating NAFTA : trade, food policies, and the destruction of Mexico / Alyshia Gálvez.

By: Gálvez, Alyshia [author.]Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xviii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520291805; 9780520291812Subject(s): North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17) | Food industry and trade -- Mexico | Nutritionally induced diseases -- Mexico | Free trade -- Health aspects -- Mexico | Free trade -- Social aspects -- Mexico | Agriculture and state -- MexicoDDC classification: 338.1/972 LOC classification: HD9014.M62 | G355 2018
Contents:
Introduction -- People of the corn -- Laying the groundwork for NAFTA -- NAFTA: free trade in the body -- Deflecting the blame: poverty and personal responsibility -- Diabetes: the disease of the migrant? -- Nostalgia, prestige, and a party every day -- Conclusion: connecting the dots, and bright spots.
Summary: "Mexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization. Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the humble taco at the same time that Mexicans are eating fewer tortillas and more processed food. Today Mexico is experiencing an epidemic of diet-related chronic illness. The precipitous rise of obesity, diabetes, and metabolic disease--all attributed to changes in the Mexican diet--has resulted in a public health emergency. In her gripping new book, Alyshia Gálvez exposes how changes in policy following NAFTA have fundamentally altered one of the most basic elements of life in Mexico - sustenance. Mexicans are faced with a food system that favors food security over subsistence agriculture, development over sustainability, market participation over social welfare, and ideologies of self-care over public health. Trade agreements negotiated to improve lives have sometimes failed, resulting in unintended consequences for people's everyday lives"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-260) and index.

Introduction -- People of the corn -- Laying the groundwork for NAFTA -- NAFTA: free trade in the body -- Deflecting the blame: poverty and personal responsibility -- Diabetes: the disease of the migrant? -- Nostalgia, prestige, and a party every day -- Conclusion: connecting the dots, and bright spots.

"Mexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization. Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the humble taco at the same time that Mexicans are eating fewer tortillas and more processed food. Today Mexico is experiencing an epidemic of diet-related chronic illness. The precipitous rise of obesity, diabetes, and metabolic disease--all attributed to changes in the Mexican diet--has resulted in a public health emergency. In her gripping new book, Alyshia Gálvez exposes how changes in policy following NAFTA have fundamentally altered one of the most basic elements of life in Mexico - sustenance. Mexicans are faced with a food system that favors food security over subsistence agriculture, development over sustainability, market participation over social welfare, and ideologies of self-care over public health. Trade agreements negotiated to improve lives have sometimes failed, resulting in unintended consequences for people's everyday lives"-- Provided by publisher.