Introduction / Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman -- Taking a different tack: pesticide regulatory reform activism in California / Jill Lindsey Harrison -- How canadian farmers fought and won the battle against GM wheat / Emily Eaton -- How midas lost its golden touch: neoliberalism and...

This book examines the economic incentives for food safety in the private marketplace and how public actions have helped shape those incentives. Noted contributors analyze alternative public health protection efforts and the benefits and costs associated with these actions to understand: why an...