<B> A timely indictment of industrial agriculture's threat to the future of food, health, and the environment.</B><br/><br/>If we are what we eat, then, as Christopher D. Cook contends in this powerful look at the food industry, we are not in good shape. The facts speak for themselves: more than 75 million Americans suffered from food poisoning last year, and 5,000 of them died; 67 percent of American males are overweight, obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States and supersizing is just the tip of the iceberg: the way we make and eat food today is putting our environment and the very future of food at risk.<br/><br/><I>Diet for a Dead Planet</I> takes us beyond <I>Fast Food Nation</I> to show how our entire food system is in crisis. Corporate control of farms and supermarkets, unsustainable drives to increase agribusiness