Food and Famine
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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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Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution
by Richard Manning Publisher Comments Food's Frontier describes the work of researchers in third world and indigenous countries to document the success of sustainable traditional agriculture and expand its benefits, in contrast to the damage done by the Green Revolution's dependence on...
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Seafood Choices Balancing Benefits & Ris
by Malden Nesheim Book News Annotation Seafood is promoted as part of a healthy diet, yet consumers are warned about possible contamination by mercury and other toxic chemicals. Representing Institute of Medicine public meetings held in 2005, this volume addresses these conflicting...
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Science, Ethics, & Food: Papers & Proceedings of a Colloquium Organized by the Smithsonian Institution
by Brian W J Lemay Publisher Comments Behind a facade of technically complex problems and pervasive misunderstandings or failures of communication, improved global production and distribution of food undeniably looms as one of the greatest challenges we face. This book is the record of a...
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Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm
by Linda Faillace Publisher Comments In the mid-1990s Linda and Larry Faillace had a dream: they wanted to breed sheep and make cheese on their Vermont farm. They did the research, worked hard, followed the rules, and, after years of preparation and patience, built a successful...
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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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Eat Your Genes: How Genetically Modified Food Is Entering Our Diet, Revised and Updated Edition
by Ppinder Hundal Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references ([195]-202) and index....
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The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times
by Albert Bates Publisher Comments Over the coming years we will need to move from a global culture addicted to cheap, abundant petroleum to a culture of compelled conservation, whether through government directive or market forces. The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook provides...
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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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Politically Incorrect Nutrition: What You May Not Know about Your Food and Drink
by Michael Barbee Publisher Comments Using the most recent and objective scientific and clinical research data, this book reveals that much current nutritional dogma is based on outdated information or has been fabricated to satisfy vested corporatefinancial interests rather than to promote...
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Genescapes: The Ecology of Genetic Engineering
by Stephen Nottingham Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-204) and index....
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Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food
by Dan Charles Publisher Comments Biotech companies are creating designer crops with strange powers-from cholesterol-reducing soybeans to tobacco plants that act as solar-powered pharmaceutical factories. They promise great benefits: better health for consumers and more productive...
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Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature: What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Your Planet
by Martin Teitel Publisher Comments Picture a world where the french fries you eat are registered as a pesticide. Where corn plants kill monarch butterflies. Where multinational corporations own the life forms that farmers grow and legally control the farmers' actions. That world exists...
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Together at the Table: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System (Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society)
by Patricia Allen Publisher Comments Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit and salad bars stocked with local foods. In a community garden in New...
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The Little Food Book
by Craig Sams Publisher Comments The latest in Disinformation's popular series of gift-priced and mini-sized books, The Little Food Bookfollows the success of The Little Earth Book, tackling issues on our own plates-those affecting the food we eat: genetic modification, farming...
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Tough Choices: Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity
by Lester R Brown Book News Annotation In this contribution to the World Food Summit (Rome, November 1996), Brown--president of the environmental research organization Worldwatch Institute--argues that pressures on global food supplies by growing populations and affluence will result in...
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Killer Foods: When Scientists Manipulate Genes, Better Is Not Always Best
by Michael W Fox Publisher Comments A critical, in-depth look at modern science's most controversial frontier, supported with documented research reports throughout, including a helpful resource list....
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California Studies in Food and Culture #03: Food Politics
by Marion Nestle
Publisher Comments How does the food industry influence what we eat and, therefore, our health? What are the food industry's marketing methods and what is its relationship to the political system? What can be said about its use of political power to achieve profit goals? A...
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Who's Hungry? and How Do We Know?: Food Shortage, Poverty, and Deprivation
by Laurie Field Derose Publisher Comments This book recognizes that any attempt to reduce hunger requires a sound understanding of which people are affected. It differentiates between food shortage (regional food scarcity), food poverty (inadequate household food supplies), and food deprivation (...
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World Hunger #2007: Hunger and Health: World Hunger Series 2007
by United Nations World Publisher Comments Hunger and Health explores the multiple relationships between hunger and poor health, and how they affect the growth of individuals, physiologically and psychologically, constraining the development of nations both socially and economically. Examining...
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