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Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment.
by Fred Magdoff  Publisher Comments Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of peasants and farmers continue to be pushed off the land. Applied in increasing volumes, chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers deplete the soil, pollute our...
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Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Blythe Lappe Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-419) and index....
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Stolen Harvest : the Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (00 Edition)
by Vandana Shiva 
Publisher Comments "Contents" Introduction Chapter 1 The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply Chapter 2 Soy Imperialism and the Destruction of Local Food Cultures Chapter 3 The Stolen Harvest Under the Sea Chapter 4 Mad Cows and Sacred Cows Chapter 5 The Stolen Harvest...
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Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, & Money
by Erik Marcus Publisher Comments Meat Market elevates the debate over animal agriculture. Erik Marcus exposes and clears away the exaggerated claims and counterclaims put forth by the meat industry and its opponents. In the process, Marcus presents a thorough examination of animal...
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The War on Bugs
by Will Allen Publisher Comments Will Allen is an organic farming visionary. A true activist, entrepreneur, and expert, he understands the complexities of farming first hand and the impact that commercialization has had.In the early nineteenth century as the American population grew...
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World Hunger : Twelve Myths (2ND 98 Edition)
by Frances Moore Lappe Publisher Comments In this completely revised edition of the classic on world hunger, three experts on food and agriculture expose the myths that prevent us from effectively addressing the problem. Written in a straightforward, easy-to-read style, "World Hunger" shakes...
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Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
by Claire Hope Cummings Publisher Comments Life on earth is facing unprecedented challenges from global warming, war, and mass extinctions. The plight of seeds is a less visible but no less fundamental threat to our survival. Seeds are at the heart of the planet's life-support systems. Their...
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Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food
by Pamela Ronald Publisher Comments By the year 2050, Earth's population will double. If we continue with current farming practices, vast amounts of wilderness will be lost, millions of birds and billions of insects will die, and the public will lose billions of dollars as a consequence of...
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The Compassionate Carnivore: Or, How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old MacDonald's Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat
by Catherine Friend Publisher Comments For most of her life, Catherine Friend was a carnivore who preferred not to consider where the meat on her plate came from—beef didn’t have a face, chicken didn’t have a personality, and pork certainly shouldn’t have feelings. But...
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Feeding a World Population of More Than Eight Billion People: A Challenge to Science
by J C Waterlow Publisher Comments Since the 1960s, breakthroughs in agriculture have made it possible to satisfy the world's increasing requirements for food. Can this trend continue over the next thirty years when the world population is projected to exceed eight billion? This book...
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Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food (Yale Agrarian Studies)
by Steve Striffler Publisher Comments From inside the chicken factory, a report on the real cost of chicken for farmers, workers, and consumers...
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Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food
by Kathleen Hart
Publisher Comments Most Americans eat genetically modified food on a daily basis. Yet many of us are barely aware that we’re eating something that has been altered; food labels do not include information on ingredients that have been genetically modified, and the...
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Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods
by Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher Comments Issuing a "profound and engaging...passionate call to us to re-think our food industry" (Jim Harrison, author of "The Raw and the Cooked"), Nabhan reminds readers that eating close to home is not just a matter of convenienceQit is an act of deep cultural...
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World Agriculture and Environment : Commodity-by-commodity Guide To Impacts and Practices (04 Edition)
by Jason Clay Publisher Comments World Agriculture and the Environment presents a unique assessment of agricultural commodity production and the environmental problems it causes, along with prescriptions for increasing efficiency and reducing damage to natural systems. Drawing on his...
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Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments Renowned scientist and author Goodall delivers an eye-opening and empowering book that explores the social and personal significance of what people eat....
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The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
by Andrew Kimbrell Publisher Comments Fatal Harvest takes an unprecedented look at our current ecologically destructive agricultural system and offers a compelling vision for an organic and environmentally safer way of producing the food we eat. The Fatal Harvest Reader brings together in an...
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Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures
by Lester R Brown Publisher Comments In this eye-opening report, the president of Earth Policy Institute reveals how human demands are outstripping the earth's capacities and what needs to be done about it....
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Renewing Salmon Nation's Food Traditions
by Gary Nabhan
Publisher Comments Renewing Salmon Nation's Food Traditions describes a treasure trove of regional plants and species — some at risk, others recovering. We hope that it can serve as both a reference guide and a historical inventory of species that were once abundant...
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Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat
by Howard F Lyman
Publisher Comments Howard Lyman's testimony on The Oprah Winfrey Show revealed the deadly impact of the livestock industry on our well-being. It not only led to Oprah's declaration that she'd never eat a burger again, it sent shock waves through a concerned and vulnerable...
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Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf: The Story of One Man, Two Cows, and the Feeding of a Nation
by Peter Lovenheim Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-264) and index....
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