Introduction
Our Big Fat Contradiction
Arcadia Lost
About Joe
An Hourglass Figure
Ways of Being Free
The Menu of Chapters
A Rural Autopsy
And on That Farm He Had a Wife
Crooked Fictions
Debtward Ho
After Despair
Did the WTO Kill Lee Kyung Hae?
Some Farmers Are Pushed
But Where Does It Stop?
You Have Become Mexican
NAFTA and After
Corn for the Rich Men Only
Once Were Farmers
Beyond a Border
The Wrong Explanation
Bringing Agriculture to the City of Angels
Lee Again
'Just a Cry for Bread'
A Secret History of Refreshment
Rhodes' Conundrum
The Cold War for Food
After Food Aid
The World Trade Organization
The Customer is Our Enemy: A Brief Introduction to Food System Business
Permanent Banana Republic: The United Fruit Company
Varieties of Consolidation
The Market for Political Favour
Dwayne Andreas and the Currying of National Interest
Better Living through Chemistry
The Knowledge and the Initiative
Who Knows What
Corporations Address the Needs of the Poor
I'd Like to Thank the Academy
For Africa!
Making up Makhathini
Better Through Living Chemistry
Glycine Rex
Secret Ingredient
A Whole Hill of Beans
Learning the Soy Samba
The Perfect Storm
Blairo Maggi - Poster Soy
The View from Afar
The Perils of National Development
The World's Most Important Social Movement
Bringing It Home
Checking out of Supermarkets
The Self-Serving Store
Almost Orwell
666 and All That
Discipline in the Aisles
Wal-Mart
Supply Chain-gangs
The Contradictions of Convenience
Every Cloud Has a Redlining
Shelves of Love
In the Garden of the Black Panthers
Chosen by Bunnies
On Places and Taste and Food
Food Is from Mars
Wheat is Murder
Hooked on TV Dinners
The Now of Chow
War on the Obese
Feeling the Burn
Your Pace or Mine?
Anti-Malbouffe
Conclusion
Inside the Hourglass
It's Just We, Ourselves and Us
Follow the Leader
Notes
References
Acknowledgements
Permissions
Index