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Food Routes
- Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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In Food Routes, Robyn Metcalfe explores an often-overlooked aspect of the global food system: how food moves from producer to consumer. She finds that the food supply chain is adapting to our increasingly complex demands for both personalization and convenience - but, she says, it won't be an easy ride.
Networked, digital tools will improve the food system but will also challenge our relationship to food in anxiety-provoking ways. It might not be easy to transfer our affections from verdant fields of organic tomatoes to high-rise greenhouses tended by robots. And yet, argues Metcalfe - a cautious technology optimist - technological advances offer opportunities for innovations that can get better food to more people in an increasingly urbanized world.
Metcalfe follows a slice of New York pizza and a club sandwich through the food supply chain; considers local foods, global foods, and food deserts; investigates the processing, packaging, and storage of food; explores the transportation networks that connect farm to plate; and explains how food can be tracked using sensors and the internet of things.
Future food may be engineered, networked, and nearly independent of crops grown in fields. New technologies can make the food system more efficient - but at what cost to our traditionally close relationship with food?
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Interesting
I was hoping for a bit more details. It's still worth a listen. The authors take on the future is very interesting..
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I wanted to learn Logistics through storytelling
That's what I got. I'm about 25% through the book and have learned a LOT of new logistics terms, as well as heard them used within a sentence and in context. I already feel wiser in my field.
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Topic: fascinating. Writing style: not so much.
This book broached a wonderful topic, with a writing style that was difficult -but in the end somewhat possible- to get used to and enjoy.
The author’s phrasing often left me wondering what relationship one comment had with another —or after listing to a series of ideas, left me questioning what, if any, meaning the comments had.
Here are two typical examples:
‘Warehouses are being built every day, but their uses may change in the future…’
—What? What is the connexion between these -what is the point here? That today’s warehouses will be re-purposed in the future? Why is the author talking about this -if this is even really the author’s intended point. Surely no one thinks that today’s warehouses will remain unchanged forever; why is this a worthwhile fact with regards to food routes? The author should explain, or leave out material that at least prima facie seems a non-sequitor.
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The author moves from great generality and fanciful conjecture to concrete minutia with poetic flourish, over and over, in a painful, inconsistent way. As I got further through the book, I learnt to listen to it as more of a stream-of-consciousness pondering, it then became less frustrating and more enjoyable.
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