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On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic Volume 85

On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic Volume 85

Simmons, Dana

Paperback

Series: California Studies in Food and Culture

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0520412982
ISBN13: 9780520412989
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

In this book, Dana Simmons explores the enduring production of hunger in US history. Hunger, in the modern United States, became a technology--a weapon, a scientific method, and a policy instrument. During the nineteenth century, state agents and private citizens colluded in large-scale campaigns of ethnic cleansing using hunger and food deprivation. In the twentieth century, officials enacted policies and rules that made incarcerated people, welfare recipients, and beneficiaries of foreign food aid hungry by design, in order to modify their behavior. With the advent of ultraprocessed foods, food manufacturers designed products to stimulate cravings and consumption at the expense of public health. Taking us inside the labs of researchers devoted to understanding hunger as a biological and social phenomenon, On Hunger examines the continuing struggle to produce, suppress, or control hunger in America.

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