Book - In Defense of Food Biodiversity

Our plates have never seemed so varied, nor our grocery stores so abundant. But could it be that behind this profusion lies a global loss of food biodiversity?

A great nostalgist, this urban nutritionist wanted to understand how foods cherished by generations of humans could suddenly disappear, but above all, what could have caused their extinction and why it should alarm us.

Without ever losing his refreshing humor, in the book In Defense of Food Biodiversity, he traces five major moments in our food history and their effects on the diversity of our diet.

Captivating portraits of once abundant but now vanished foods accompany his observations, as so many examples of what could happen to the plants and animals we feast on today.

Chapters:

1. Food biodiversity
2. The last mammoth steak - hunting & gathering
3. The domestication of nature - the invention of agriculture
4. The invasion of the islands - the Columbian exchange
5. When the forest becomes an island - agriculture, the Green Revolution, and ecosystems
6. The disappearance of varieties - the Green Revolution and globalization
7. Everyone eats the same thing - globalization and industrialization
8. Eating during the sixth extinction