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Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food by Dale Finley Slongwhite (2014-05-06) Hardcover – January 1, 1800
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity Press of Florida; edition (2014-05-06)
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1800
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- ASIN : B01FGJ0RB6
- Publisher : University Press of Florida; edition (2014-05-06) (January 1, 1800)
- Language : English
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2021Florida’s Lake Apopka was once an angler’s paradise, but the need to feed people during WWII led to the draining of part of the lake to expose the rich “muck” to harvest numerous crops. The stories of the people who harvested these crops is told in this book. Their stories of the conditions in the fields like being crop-dusted and not being able to take shelter will make you thankful for the people who put food on your table. Hopefully, today’s migrant workers have better conditions in the fields and do not put their life on the line to undertake those work.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2014This is an amazing book. For me worrying about the calories in food, cost of food and visiting Disney the home of ' making dreams come true', I had my eyes opened to the actual human cost of producing food in Disney's back yard. This book details the tragic lives of generations of the people of Lake Apopka, working in terrible conditions, and eventually suffering the consequences of the pesticides exposure. Not simply uncovering the statistics of these people, Slongwhite's interviews of these beautiful and noble people is heartwrenching. The book is very well written and the photographs are wonderful. With graduations coming I am planning to buy ."Fed Up" as graduation gifts for my high school and college graduates. I know they will be as touched and inspired as I am.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2021I love this not bc its my grandmother on the cover but bc the writer captured the character of my grandmother, when I read her chapter it was like my grandmother talkn I could hear her voice..GREAT JOB!
- Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2014When I got this book I was expecting to learn more about all the stuff that is in our food and how it affects us.
Instead I got a heartbreaking story of the people who were hurt and abused in the process of making our food.
Since a lot of the people interviewed in the book had similar experiences, it can get repetitive some times. Each chapter is written in the perspective of one of the people interviewed.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2014I've been concerned about how pesticides affect the consumers of food for years, but in reading Dale Slongwhite's book, I realized that just as important is the effect on the people who harvest our food. I found the book to be thoroughly researched, eye opening and inspiring. Each person's story moved me and angered me at the same time. How can we have let this happen in the first place and then continue. Any teenager or adult that eats should read this book.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2014This book is a highly readable and moving wake up call to human and environmental costs of our food that are not included in market prices. These are the costs paid by the farmworkers themselves, the injustice and heartlessness of the health costs and abuses they suffer. The stories of individual flesh and blood human beings interviewed personally by Dale Slongwhite are proof of the pudding. Hopefully they will inspire corrective action on many levels, in the name of justice and environmental preservation.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2014Must of us have NO CLUE as to what happens to make it possible for us to eat produce! This book will open your eyes and shock you. I cannot eat a salad, a carrot stick, frozen veggies, etc. etc. without thinking about the poor souls of Lake Apopka that risked their lives for their 'job'. Author Dale Finley Slongwhite has presented this travesty in a way that makes it all too real.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2017There is a saying, "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch". The low prices we pay for our food imply a cost that is taken from somewhere else. This book is an eye-opener and shows the human cost of mass agriculture.