The Grand Food Bargain

 26 Index

specialization,  5 –  6 ,  4
speculators,  40
sperm whales, 
SPS. See Agreement on the
Application of Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures
St. Petersburg siege,  2 – 26
Stevia, 
stewardship, 2  2
structure/function claims,  8 –  9
subsidies
assistance programs as, 2  8 – 22 
biofuels and,  9 – 80
farm bills and, 90 – 9 , 94
insurance and, 96
meat industry and,  0
nature as form of, 222 – 22 
origins of, 2  8 – 2  9
politicians and, 2  4 – 2  5
Venezuela and, 55
sugar, consumption of,  6 - 68 ,  0 ,
 4 –  6 , 24 
sugarcane,  8 –  9
suitcase farmers,  9 
superbugs,  94
supermarkets,  8
superpests,  9 
superweeds,  9 
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP), 220 – 22 
surface-water laws,  6
surpluses, 8 , 2  6 , 2  8 – 2  9
survival, 4 – 49 , 5 
sustainability, 22 – 224 , 226 , 2  2
Syngenta-ChemChina,  0
Syria, 2 
systems
concept of, 24 – 25
diseases and,  5 – 52
globalization of,  8 – 85

Tambora, Mount, 5 

Tanzania, 4 ,  2

Taylor, Michael,  59

Taylor, Zachary,  45 –  46

technology use agreements,  0

Texas, 52 ,  0 ,  6 , 98 ,  45 ,  5 ,  54 -  55

Timber Culture Act ( 8 ),  4

Tittabawassee River, 205

The Jungle (Sinclair),  48 –  49

Tolstoy, Leo, 5 – 58 , 2 

tomatoes, 29

tournament system, 

TR 4. See tropical race 4

tractors,  0

trade

bananas and, 22 – 2 

food safety and,  6 – 64

food surpluses and, 8

fraud and,  82 –  84

“The Tragedy of the Commons”

(Hardin), 88

trans fat,  80 –  8 

transition assistance, 95

trash, 20 

tropical race 4 (TR 4 ), 28 – 29

Trump, Donald, ,  99 – 200

trustbusting,  2 – 

tuition, 

Tunisia, 2  5

turbines,  09

Tyson Foods,  6 ,  8

uncertainty, pseudoscience and, 

unintended consequences

antibiotics and,  92 –  95

of Bayh-Dole Act, 

Dust Bowl and,  9 – 92

Europe, potatoes and,  90 –  9 

global warming and, 20 – 206

Jari project and, 200 – 202