{"product_id":"eating-nafta-trade-food-policies-and-the-destruction-of-mexico-9780520291812","title":"Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico","description":"Mexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization. Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the humble taco at the same time that Mexicans are eating fewer tortillas and more processed food. Today Mexico is experiencing an epidemic of diet-related chronic illness. The precipitous rise of obesity and diabetes--attributed to changes in the Mexican diet--has resulted in a public health emergency. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In her gripping new book, Alyshia Gálvez exposes how changes in policy following NAFTA have fundamentally altered one of the most basic elements of life in Mexico--sustenance. Mexicans are faced with a food system that favors food security over subsistence agriculture, development over sustainability, market participation over social welfare, and ideologies of self-care over public health. Trade agreements negotiated to improve lives have resulted in unintended consequences for people's everyday lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlyshia Gálvez\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Food Studies and Anthropology at The New School. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGuadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePatient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth-weight Paradox\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726106104082,"sku":"9780520291812","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_be90c38a-56bb-4ed5-8c93-60d671c61436.jpg?v=1734854547","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eating-nafta-trade-food-policies-and-the-destruction-of-mexico-9780520291812","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}