David Waltner-Toews

Food, Sex and Salmonella (eBook, ePUB)

Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What sex is to interpersonal relationships, eating is to the human-environment relationship: a consummation of humans' connection to the living biosphere. But while sticking one's tongue into a new and exciting environment may be an act as old as the planet, it can also lead to some nasty surprises. In this lively look at foodborne illnesses, David Waltner-Toews discusses food-related problems caused by bacteria, viruses, and parasites, including death by puffer fish, rollicking tales of tapeworms, neurological problems brought on by ciguatera poison, and that old standby, botulism. He also examines the chemicals and antibiotics that have entered the food supply and the havoc they can wreak. And to help readers stop problems before they start, he offers common-sense solutions to confronting the complicated issue of foodborne disease. His witty approach makes a deadly serious subject accessible to all readers, while never minimizing the risk.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greystone Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781926685182
• Artikelnr.: 38371607

Autorenporträt

David Waltner-Toews is a veterinarian and epidemiologist specializing in diseases people get from animals by living with them, sharing their environments, or eating them. He is a professor in the Department of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph in Ontario, founding president of Veterinarians without Borders/Veterinaires sans Frontieres-Canada, and author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including One Animal Among Many: Gaia, Goats and Garlic and The Chickens Fight Back. He has also published two textbooks and one work of fiction. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.