{"product_id":"elsewhere-how-the-us-food-system-cultivates-consumes-and-conceals-its-violence-paperback","title":"Elsewhere: How the Us Food System Cultivates, Consumes, and Conceals Its Violence - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStian Rice\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eElsewhere argues that you can make all of the \"smart\" food choices you want and follow Michael Pollan to the letter, but that won't end the violence in the food system. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eEating is an act of violence. With every life-sustaining meal and food purchase, we shorten the lives of farmers, laborers, animals, the planet, and ourselves. This isn't a symptom of a broken food system, but a feature of a \u003ci\u003eworking\u003c\/i\u003e one: our capitalist food system doesn't cause harm accidentally, it does so because it \u003ci\u003ehas\u003c\/i\u003e to. To keep generating wealth, the system moves its violence around, away from privileged producers and consumers and into forgettable elsewheres: reservations, prisons, distant islands, killing floors, inner cities, rural hinterlands, and war-torn countries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This shell-game is not new. \u003ci\u003eElsewhere\u003c\/i\u003e examines the 250-year history of the US food system to uncover how the country used abundance to enrich some and exploit others; how it captured, colonized, and reorganized territory to conceal its harms; and why decades of technological innovation, environmental awareness, and consumer consciousness haven't staunched these self-inflicted wounds. \u003ci\u003eElsewhere\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to ask different questions about the food system: where does its violence come from, where does it go, and how can we nurture a food system that first does no harm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStian Rice is a geographer whose work examines the origins of violence in the food system. He has written about famine, genocide, and structural violence for academic and general audiences since 2012 and is the author of \u003ci\u003eFamine in the Remaking: Food System Change and Mass Starvation in Hawaii, Madagascar, and Cambodia\u003c\/i\u003e. He is assistant research scientist with the Center for Urban Environmental Research at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and teaches geography at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland. Rice received his PhD in geography from Kent State University. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67857960927539,"sku":"9781959000914","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/xotlKwbk7k9781959000914.webp?v=1793575860","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/elsewhere-how-the-us-food-system-cultivates-consumes-and-conceals-its-violence-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}