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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.
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.
