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003			OCoLC
005			20180613143608.0
008			170926t20182018enka b 001 0 eng d
020			_a1780239254 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9781780239255 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1004761215
040			_aYDX _beng _erda _cYDX _dEYM _dOCLCO _dSTF _dIUK
050		4	_aTX558.S7 _bD72 2018
100	1		_aDu Bois, Christine M., _eauthor. _976729
245	1	4	_aThe story of soy / _cChristine M. Du Bois.
264		1	_aLondon [England] : _bReaktion Books Ltd., _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a304 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 267-293) and index.
505	0		_aAsian roots -- Europe explores and experiments -- The young country and the ancient bean -- Soy patriotic -- Fattening with feed -- Soy swoops south -- Moulding our world -- Poison or panacea? -- Beans as business: big business -- Fat in the fire: soy diesel.
520			_a"The humble soybean is the world's most widely grown and most traded oilseed. And though found in everything from veggie burgers to cosmetics, breakfast cereals to plastics, soy is also a poorly understood crop often viewed in extreme terms--either as a superfood or a deadly poison. In this illuminating book, Christine M. Du Bois reveals soy's hugely significant role in human history as she traces the story of soy from its domestication in ancient Asia to the promise and peril ascribed to it in the twenty-first century. Traveling across the globe and through millennia, The Story of Soy includes a cast of fascinating characters as vast as the soy fields themselves--entities who've applauded, experimented with, or despised soy. From Neolithic villagers to Buddhist missionaries, European colonialists, Japanese soldiers, and Nazi strategists; from George Washington Carver to Henry Ford, Monsanto, and Greenpeace; from landless peasants to petroleum refiners, Du Bois explores soy subjects as diverse as its impact on international conflicts, its role in large-scale meat production and disaster relief, its troubling ecological impacts, and the nutritional controversies swirling around soy today. She also describes its genetic modification, the scandals and pirates involved in the international trade in soybeans, and the potential of soy as an intriguing renewable fuel. Featuring compelling historical and contemporary photographs, The Story of Soy is a potent reminder never to underestimate the importance of even the most unprepossessing sprout." --
650		0	_aSoybean. _954497
650		0	_aSoyfoods. _976730
650		0	_aCooking (Soybeans) _976731
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948			_hHELD BY WUY - 14 OTHER HOLDINGS