Is shopping for food really a political act?

Why is it that, in a world with enough food for everyone, more people than ever go hungry?

Why did the French resistance against genetically modified foods become a fight against McDonalds?

Why did the foot-and-mouth epidemic in the UK become a problem for consumers?

Capable of connecting human bodies to abstract nations, and techno-science to moral concerns, food has become one of the most contested fields of our time. It is high on the political agenda throughout the world. With disease, contamination, famine, hunger...