A Chicken Little in our future? (interview with Joan Gussow about food processing, nutrition, and the multinational food industry) (interview) From: Nutrition Action Healthletter | Date: September 1, 1991| Author: Liebman, Bonnie | COPYRIGHT 1991 Center for Science in the Public Interest. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Much of our food supply is instant, artificial, individualistic, puffed up, disposable, dazzlingly packaged, denatured, and, in several senses, tasteless," says Joan Gussow, professor of nutrition and education at Columbia University's Teachers College in New York. What's more, our food supply is grown, processed, and transported in a way that is not -sustainable over the long term, argues Gussow in her new book, Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce and Agriculture.

"Nature isn'...