The U.S. is committed to the impossible task of feeding more people and animals on a better diet than the land can provide.
"The years of 1937 to 1942 were all years of bumper crops. We came to accept these good yields as normal, and erroneously planned our food strategy on the assumption of continued high production. Four thousand years ago in Egypt Joseph was more realistic."
So argued Food ($2.75; Knopf), 239 pages of easy-to-read economics that may jolt the complacent U.S. The authors, Cornell University's crisp economist, Frank A. Pearson, professor...
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