Reviews of “Food, Sex, and Salmonella”
 Food, Sex, and Salmonella"Waltner-Toews…takes care to emphasize the cultural, social, and celebratory place of food in our lives and cautions against mechanistic or simplistic responses to food issues." Alternatives Journal, Apr 1, 2009 Read more about Food, Sex, and Salmonella >> |
Food, Sex, and Salmonella“In this timely book about food safety, the good doctor cleverly uses sex as a metaphor in order to probe food-borne pathogens and our social relationships to food. …He urges people to look at the connections and relationships between food, farming, disease and ecology. Waltner-Toews hammers many aspects of modern, industrial food systems, claiming that economies of scale and industrial trade promote pandemics, and touts organic and local as reasonable alternatives to our crazy modern diets.” Organic Lifestyles Magazine, Jan 20, 2009 Read more about Food, Sex, and Salmonella >> |
Food, Sex, and Salmonella“Dr. Waltner-Toews book is full of the true joy of the scientist, where even something like salmonella can be studied with reverence and interest as just another organism living with us humans on this big blue ball.” National Examiner, Jan 15, 2009 Read more about Food, Sex, and Salmonella >> |
Food, Sex, and Salmonella“The epidemiologist-veterinarian combines solid science and a light touch to describe the bacteria, viruses and parasites that have entered our food supply, and how new diseases and epidemics have emerged.” Globe and Mail, Apr 26, 2008 Read more about Food, Sex, and Salmonella >> |
Food, Sex, and Salmonella”Likening our wanton culinary habits… to the dangers of promiscuous sex, Waltner-Toews explores the gamut of risks associated with food-borne disease, from acute… to chronic… as outcomes of a greedy industry happy to enable our undisciplined appetites. In the process of satisfying those appetites, we’re ingesting a host of known and unknown natural and manmade toxins, many of which also jeopardize the earth.” Booklist ***Starred Review***, Apr 5, 2008 Read more about Food, Sex, and Salmonella >> |