How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy

我們的生活方式受到飲食習慣的影響，這一點可以從世界各地在種植、準備和食用食物的不同方式中看出——從坦尚尼亞的獵人採集部落哈茲人(Hadza)，他們傳統永續的生活方式正受到擁擠星球的擠壓；到不使用機械設備，依靠小塭耕作養活自己的不丹農民，再到大多數西方社會，其食物主要來自於大規模集約化的農業或養殖。

然而，儘管傳統的食物供應方式通常與自然環境更為和諧，但它們無法應對人口達到歷史新高的需求。我們大多依賴一個複雜的全球食物網絡，涵蓋生產、分配、消費和處理，這一系統目前正面臨前所未有的挑戰。我們既面臨飢餓又遭遇肥胖，豐收與環境災難並存，對許多人來說食物便宜，卻對其他人來說難以承擔。朱利安·巴吉尼(Julian Baggini)巧妙地探討了過去和現在各種不同社會中最好的和最差的飲食做法，旨在找出可以指引我們未來的原則。

我們對於如何餵養自己有必要好好深入了解。這本書探討面向廣泛、視野開闊且具權威性，《How the World Eats》提倡一種多元、人道、資源豐富且公平的全球飲食哲學，以食物為核心，幫助我們構建一個適應二十一世紀及其後的食物系統。

How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world - from the hunter gatherer Hadza in Tanzania whose traditionally sustainable lifestyle is being squeezed by a crowded planet, and the subsistence rice farmers of Bhutan who toil without machinery to feed themselves from their smallholdings, to Western societies whose food is mostly farmed or bred in vast intensive enterprises.

But while traditional approaches to providing food are often more in harmony with the natural environment, they cannot provide for a human population increasing to an historic peak. Most of us rely on a complex global food web of production, distribution, consumption and disposal, which is now contending with unprecedented challenges. We face both hunger and obesity, bumper crops and catastrophic environmental damage, food that is cheap for many and unaffordable for others. Julian Baggini expertly explores the best and worst food practices in a huge array of different societies past and present to identify the principles that can guide our future.

The need for a better understanding of how we feed ourselves has never been more urgent. Wide-ranging, eye-opening and definitive, How the World Eats advocates for a pluralistic, humane, resourceful and equitable global food philosophy, with food firmly at its centre, so we can build a food system fit for the twenty-first century and beyond.