How the World Eats

Philosopher Julian Baggini examines how eating shapes how we live. He looks at vastly different ways people grow, prepare, and eat food, from the hunter-gatherer Hadza in Tanzania to Western societies with intensive food production. Most people now depend on a complex global food web facing unprecedented challenges. Baggini explores food practices past and present, including new technologies, ethics, health, governance, waste, and commodification. He seeks essential principles for a pluralistic, humane, resourceful, and equitable food philosophy for the twenty-first century and beyond.

Why You Should Read?

• Explore how different societies grow, prepare, and eat food across the world.
• Meet the hunter-gatherer Hadza in Tanzania and learn about their threatened sustainable lifestyle.
• Delve into new farming methods, cultured meat, GM, and astronaut food from its exploration.
• Learn about food governance, food wastage, commodification, and the ethics of ultra processed food.

About the Author

Julian Baggini born in 1968, is English. He works as a philosopher and journalist, and he writes books. More than twenty of his books explain philosophy to people who are not specialists. He is one of the founders of The Philosophers' Magazine. His writing has also appeared in newspapers and magazines. He has authored books about atheism, secularism, and the character of national identity. He serves as a patron of Humanists UK, a body that supports secular humanism.