"Food Wars argues that two conflicting paradigms (one developing food through integrating the 'life sciences', the other through integrating 'ecology') are battling to replace the dominant industrial-productionist model of the 20th century, both grappling to attract investment, public support and policy legitimacy over the appropriate use of biology and food technologies."--Jacket.Content: The food wars thesis --Diet and health: diseases and food --The policy responses to diet and disease --The food wars business --The consumer culture war --The quality war: putting public and environmental health together? --Food democracy or food control? --The future(s).Abstract: Argues that two conflicting paradigms (one developing food through integrating the 'life sciences', the other though 'ecology') are battling to replace the dominant industrial-productionist model ofthe 20th century, grappling to attract investment, public support and policy legitimacy over the appropriate use of biology and food technologies.