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During the past two decades, the food industry has taken over much of the FDA’s role in ensuring that what Americans eat is safe. The agency can’t come close to vetting its jurisdiction of $1.2 trillion in annual food sales. In 2011, the FDA inspected 6 percent of domestic food producers and just 0.4 percent of importers. The FDA has had no rules for how often food producers must be inspected.

The food industry hires for-profit inspection companies — known as third-party auditors — who aren’t required by law to meet any federal standards and have no government supervision. Some of these monitors choose to follow guidelines from trade groups that include ConAgra Foods Inc., Kraft Foods Inc. and Wal-Mart. The private inspectors that companies select often check only those areas their clients ask them to review. That means they can miss deadly pathogens lurking in places they never examined.

Food sickens 48 million Americans a year, with 128,000 hospitalized and 3,000 killed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates. The rate of infections linked to foodborne salmonella, which causes the most illnesses and deaths, rose 10 percent from 2006 to 2010. The U.S. had 37 recalls of fruits and vegetables in 2011, up from two in 2005. Many of the victims of contaminated food are those with under-developed or weakened immune systems, such as children and the elderly. More from Grist

See also Main page on Food Production and Consumption. See also Urban Agriculture, Chemicals See also Third World Development (and its associated topics). Genetically Modified Organisms as well as Population. For labor issues, see Labor page.

News on Meat Industry

How Drugs Given to Humans and Livestock May Be Creating Superbugs in Nature (salmonella in Costco chicken). 11.13.

7 States Resume Buying ‘Pink Slime’ for School Lunches, Point to Budget Cuts, Nutritional Standards as Culprit. 9/13.

Get Ready for Extra Helpings of Feces, Pus and Chlorine on Your Plate — America is Deregulating Its Meat Industry 10/13.

Yuck! USDA Plans to Expand Pilot Program that Leaves Meat Contaminated with Fecal Material 9/13.

Americans Are 110 Times More Likely to Die from Contaminated Food Than Terrorism 9/13.

Turkey burger contaminated. 5/13

Harper's Slaughterhouse Investigation Reveals Nasty Secrets Of Nebraska Beef Industry also 87 percent of supermarket meat — including beef, pork, chicken, and turkey products — tests positive for normal and antibiotic-resistant forms of Enterococcus bacteria. 4/13.

Corporate Food Giants Have Reason to Worry -- Some Very Brave Supermarkets Are Sharing Nutritional Score Numbers with Customers. 3/13

Recent History of meat inspection (audio). Includes possible shutdown of food inspection by sequester. 2/13.

slaughterhouse fined $500 million in massive meat-recall case 11/12

Mark Bittman's ideas on food labels a sample (graphic) 10/12.

The food industry’s self-regulation is a spectacular failure 10/12.

Your Burger Just Got a Little Safer, Thanks to Uncle Sam. So now, any ground beef that tests positive for six additional strains will be considered adulterated under the law, which means the product cannot be placed into commerce. That's what makes this such a big deal. It also explains why the meat industry fought the policy for so long. 6.12

School lunch coverage, including pink slime, from NPR. Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes 5/12

Why it hard to study foodborne illness 4/12

Veggie Libel laws, are laws passed in 13 U.S. states that make it easier for food producers to sue their critics for libel. These 13 states include Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas.[1] Many of the food-disparagement laws establish a lower standard for civil liability and allow for punitive damages and attorney's fees for plaintiffs alone,[2] regardless of the case's outcome legal analysis.

Articles on Meat Industry

The Meatrix, a clever animated video.

Pandora’s Lunchbox: Pulling Back the Curtain on How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal.book.

World's Oldest Hamburger? McDonald's Burger From 1999 Almost Looks New (VIDEO).

Crops, Cattle and Carbon Commonwealth Club panel discussion 6/11. (audio).

California proposition to outlaw slaughtering of sick "downer" cows (video is tough to watch) faces court challenge. The Humane Society has also investigated pork (video) that goes into McD'sMcRib sandwich.

Jonathan Safran Foer best known for the novels Everything Is Illuminated writes in his new book, Eating Animals, that he struggled with ambivalence over eating meat for most of his life, but has concluded it's quite harmful to the planet. (includes book excerpt).

“Big Ag Wants To Make It a Crime to Expose Animal Abuse at Factory Farms,”  Wayne Pacelle, Alternet, March 21, 2011.

"Minnesota Bill Targets Anyone Who Exposes an 'Image or Sound' of Animal Suffering at Factory Farms, Puppy Mills," Will Potter, Green Is The New Red, April 6, 2011. Student Researcher: Elizabeth Michael, Faculty Evaluator: Peter Phillips, Sonoma State University.

NYT article Oct 09 which is in many respects an update of Fast Food Nation

Pink Slime is ammonia treated remnants of beef processed and put into ground beef without any labeling. Jamie Oliver video.

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (see also reader) provides information on the meat industry and chemicals in the food.

Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture J Rifkin 1993

Meat Market by Erik Marcus "... presents a thorough examination of animal agriculture's cruelties and its far-reaching social costs. Marcus then considers the discouraging progress made by the animal protection movement. He evaluates where the movement has gone wrong, and how its shortcomings could best be remedied." 2005 288 pp McH Stacks HV4764 .M22 2005

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry 2006 new ed. S&E Stacks TS1963 .E37 1997 by Gail A. Eisnitz (San Rafael, CA), "winner of the Albert Schweitzer Medal for outstanding achievement in animal welfare, is the chief investigator for the Humane Farming Association."

Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry by Karen Davis.

Extensive report on agriculture's effect on environment, including livestock.

Modern Meat 2002 Frontline documentary.

Mad Cow U.S.A. by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber

"The Hidden Cost of Cheap Chicken" from The Way We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason 2006. Interview with Singer.

On meat and milk from The Way We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason 2006.

Sierra Club 2007 study of industry, rap sheet and Ten Least Wanted companies.

Raj Patelin Stuffed and Starved video interview and discussed in videos. Extensive talk (video) based on book. He works with Food First. 2010 Panel with Anna Lappe (video) His newer book The Value of Nothing also has extensive info on food. Video talk for example, the real cost of a hamburger.

Carol J. Adams (1951-) is an American author and animal rights activist. She is the author of several books, including The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990) and The Pornography of Meat (2004), focusing in particular on what she argues are the links between the oppression of women and that of non-human animals (see Eco-Feminism).

Working Undercover in a Slaughterhouse: an interview with activist Timothy Pachirat. 3/12

Websites on Food Safety

Food Safety Tracking Site, also recalls and policy.

News on Nutrition and Health Effects

Sugar

Is Sugar Toxic? CBS 60 Minutes 4/12. See also Time Magazine article by Lustig(audio interview) 1/13.

High Fructose Corn Syrup is the subject of a number of new and disturbing studies overview, Princeton study 3/10.

Chocolate, Cheese, Meat, and Sugar -- Physically Addictive Foods Neal Barnard MD discusses the science behind food additions. Willpower is not to blame: chocolate, cheese, meat, and sugar release opiate-like substances. Dr. Barnard also discusses how industry, aided by government, exploits these natural cravings, pushing us to eat more and more unhealthy foods. A plant-based (vegan) diet is the solution to avoid many of these problems. Neal Barnard is the founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM).

The End of Overeating by Kessler, (video (summary).

NYC and Richmond CA have tried to limit limit the size of sodas and kid access to them because they are liquid candy that the body does not detect as food, so never gives the signal to stop. Measure N: Richmond Soda Tax audio panel discussion and links 1/12. sample (graphic) 10/12.

Corporate Food Giants Have Reason to Worry -- Some Very Brave Supermarkets Are Sharing Nutritional Score Numbers with Customers. 3/13.

Green candy bar wrapper 3/13

Other

What's The Most Important Thing Food Labels Should Tell Us? text/audio 11/13.

Fast food giants make their food look imperfect so you’ll forget it’s hella processed. Junk food science: What kids see on TV can hurt them, includes soda and energy drinks. 6/13.

Entire food system may be contaminated with BPA and other plastic nasties 2/13.

Opening Pandora’s Lunchbox: Processed foods are even scarier than you thought 2/13. Book.

Low cost strategies to fight obesity (audio).

Measure N: Richmond Soda Tax audio panel discussion and links 1012. De teractive/2012/10/14/sunday-review/the-proposed-nutrition-label-a-quick-read-out-front.html?ref=sunday sample] (graphic) 10/12.

Food Stamp Challenge. useful blog, including background. Record numbers of Americans are getting food aid from Federal government. In solidarity with the poor and for research, some people are voluntarily trying to live on this food. Example.

"Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?" by Mark Bittman, NY Times food columnist 9.25.11 NYT op ed. Julie Guthman, a UCSC Community Studies prof., is quoted.

New study shows living near farmer's market affects health 8/11. New Stanford study of effect on food production. 5/11

Are three meals a day best?

Food deserts in CA Central Valley. 3/11.

Meat Study: A few years ago, scientists released one of the first studies to examine how diet can affect your exposure to toxic substances. In that case, researchers had a group of Seattle schoolchildren eat an organic diet for five days a week. Almost immediately, pesticide levels in the children's bodies dropped to almost undetectable levels -- and returned to "normal" after they resumed eating a conventional diet. Now, a group of Korean scientists have looked at what kind of toxins disappear when research subjects stopped eating conventional meat: "People who adopted a vegetarian diet for just five days show reduced levels of toxic chemicals in their bodies. In particular, levels of hormone disrupting chemicals and antibiotics used in livestock were lower after the five-day vegetarian program. The pilot study suggests that people may be able reduce their exposure to potentially dangerous chemicals through dietary choices, such as limiting consumption of animal products like meats and dairy." More Update: pink slime

New study shows the difference between what we eat and what the USDA food pyramid thinks we should eat is stark. 4/10 chart

Antibiotics in food is leading to a health crisis. 1/11

The Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15 foods with most and least chemicals. 5/10

Alice Waters and Friends, "Slow Food Nation" in The Nation magazine 2006.

Marion Nestle on sugar from What to Eat 2006. 10/10 article. Interview on new book 6/12

Nestle on mercury in fish

"The Hidden Cost of Cheap Chicken" from The Way We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason 2006. Interview with Singer.

On meat and milk from The Way We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason 2006

Investigating why McDonald's burgers don't rot.

Mom was right about raw cookie dough.

Websites on Food Production

Environmental Defense Fund research on food and farm policies.

Environmental Working Group has extensive food coverage including a Shopper's Guide to Pesticides was targeted with an expensive, misleading public relations attack campaign. The Alliance for Food and Farming (AFF), a California-based public relations group of pro-pesticide, big agricultural producers made the unfounded charge that the EWG Guide is influencing people to eat fewer vegetables. Those bogus claims won't fool most people. Still, EWG was shocked when California and federal officials started handing out taxpayer dollars to support the industry's tactics.

Food Safety Tracking Site, also recalls and policy.

The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national organization working to improve public policy to eradicate hunger and under-nutrition in the United States. FRAC engages in research, analysis, training, technical assistance, advocacy, and public education to improve public nutrition programs and broaden their reach.

Food First is concerned with equity. Here's their overview on Food First overview migrant labor.

Local Food Systems, promoting strong local economies by building business ecosystems rooted in agriculture.

Roots of Change works for sustainable food systems.

Community Food Security represents a comprehensive strategy to address many of the ills affecting our society and environment due to an unsustainable and unjust food system.

The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) did a report asking "How can we reduce hunger and poverty, improve rural livelihoods, and facilitate equitable, environmentally, socially and economically sustainable development through the generation, access to, and use of agricultural knowledge, science and technology?"

Grist Magazine food section, including Victual Reality, a food news blog, also ones on growing and cooking. New is Food Fight, a ongoing roundtable discussion of food issues and policy.

Post Carbon Institute's report on how to make a food and farming transition.

UCTV has a variety of talks on food and agriculture (video).

Agroecology in Action: Agroecology is a scientific discipline that uses ecological theory to study, design, manage and evaluate agricultural systems that are productive but also resource conserving. UCSC is a pioneer. CASFS Food Links

Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (blog) and Book (summary).

Maps, Databases, Infographics and Interactive

People

Marion Nestle, Nestle writes the Food Matters column for The San Francisco Chronicle, and also writes for www.foodpolitics.com. She spoke at Occupy Wall Street.

Michael Pollan, author of several important books on food. Edible Education course at UCB. Michael Pollan's excellent NYT Letter to the next president. Here are some of the food rules from his upcoming book. A documentary based on his previous book Botany of Desire is on PBS. Michael Pollan: Food Rules for Healthy People and Planet (video) 6/10.

Eric Schlosser, Fastfood Nation by Eric Schlosser S&E Stacks TX945.3 .S2968 2001 Google books

Peter Singer,

Alice Waters sparked California Cuisine and the larger Slow Food Movement (UCSC organic farming pioneer Alan Chadwick was her first produce provider, see Slugs in Action). A new Waters biography.

Raj Patelin Stuffed and Starved video interview and discussed in videos. Extensive talk (video) based on book. He works with Food First. 2010 Panel with Anna Lappe (video) His newer book The Value of Nothing also has extensive info on food. Video talk for example, the real cost of a hamburger.

Carol J. Adams (1951-) is an American author and animal rights activist. She is the author of several books, including The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990) and The Pornography of Meat (2004), focusing in particular on what she argues are the links between the oppression of women and that of non-human animals (see Eco-Feminism).

Family farmer and activist Lynn Henning exposed the egregious polluting practices of livestock factory farms in rural Michigan, gaining the attention of the federal EPA and prompting state regulators to issue hundreds of citations for water quality violations. 2010 2010 Goldman Prize winner.

Books

Michael Pollan reviews five new food books:+

Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival, includes a visit to Santa Cruz Homeless Garden project.

Joel Salatin’s latest book, Folks, This Ain’t Normal. a Google Talk on the book. His Polyface farm is featured in Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma.

The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan (she spoke at UCSC).

UCSC's Julie Guthman researches organic agriculture. audio interview on her new book Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism UC Press, 2011. Overview.

Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (summary) and (blog).

Michael Moss, investigative reporter with The New York Times and author of the new book, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. His cover story, "The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food," led last weekend’s Times Sunday magazine. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for his investigation into the dangers of contaminated meat. video interview.

Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal Opening Pandora’s Lunchbox: Processed foods are even scarier than you thought 2/13. Book. video interview search book.

The Food Wars by Walden Bello traces the evolution of the crisis, examining its eruption in Mexico, Africa, the Philippines and China, speaking out against the obscene imbalance in the most basic commodities between northern and southern hemispheres.

Farm Together Now portraits of the new food movement.

Aaron Bobrow-Strain, White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf Beacon Press, 2012.

Will Allen, the recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable urban farmer and entrepreneur. Allen's new autobiography, The Good Food Revolution, chronicles his unexpected journey from ABA basketball player to Procter & Gamble marketing executive to urban farm activist.

American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do about It) by Jonathan Bloom.

For Daniel Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, many of our problems today boil down to this: We’re cavemen come to live in the city. Our bodies just aren’t adapted for this stuff, explored in great depth in his new book, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease.

Farm City is about urban gardening in Oakland Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer By Novella Carpenter (includes excerpt and audio interview).

In his new book, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, Earth Policy Institute's Lester Brown looks at the state of the world's resources ( a "food bubble"), warning that the outlook does not look good when it comes to feeding the world's population.

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin Polyface, 338 pp., $23.95 (paper)

All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America? by Joel Berg Seven Stories, 351 pp.

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer Little, Brown, 341 pp., $25.99

Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities by Carlo Petrini, with a foreword by Alice Waters Chelsea Green, 155 pp.

 The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society by Janet A. Flammang University of Illinois Press, 325 pp NY Review of Books 6/10/10

Food Fight To really understand food in US, you need to understand how the Farm Bill works (renewed every five years.

In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today’s much-touted "green" products—carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes—really work? Implicit in efforts to go green is the promise that global warming can be stopped by swapping out dirty goods for "clean" ones. But can earth-friendly products really save the planet? This far-reaching, riveting narrative explores how the most readily available solutions to environmental crisis may be disastrously off the mark.

Global food crisis studied by Raj Patelin Stuffed and Starved video interview and discussed in videos. He works with Food First

The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, and Full Moon Feast and many of food and eco books are published by Chelsea Green.

In his new book, Tomatoland, food writer Barry Estabrook details the life of the mass-produced tomato — and the environmental and human costs of the tomato industry, including slavery. audio interview and excerpt 5/11

Wendell Berry. “The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Agriculture.” When the environmental movement divides land between pristine and degraded, what place does that leave humans who must make a livelihood? A real chance of impacting the environmental crisis can occur only when environmentalists turns their attention to "kindly use" of the land.Unsettling of America HD1761.B47 1986 Audio version. 2009 interview (audio) : Author, poet and farmer Wendell Berry was writing about the virtues of slow food and sustainable agriculture decades before it became fashionable. He joins us to discuss "Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food," his new book of essays. Berry is also the author of a new book of poetry, titled "Leavings." video interview

The End of Overeating. Pediatrician and former head of the Food and Drug Administration David Kessler says the U.S. food industry has manipulated American consumers into unhealthy eating habits audio interview 6/9) Video talk at LongNow.org

Michael Pollan is the author of a number of brilliant books on food. TEDtalk video, author of Omnivore's Dilemma (Ch 1. online free). Video of debate with John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods Video link (Realplayer required). Their correspondence, which has explored such issues as organic and local food, animal agriculture, and the role of Whole Foods, is available at Whole Foods site and Michael Pollan site. His new book is In Defense of Food see also audio interview on NPR 12/24/08 and short excerpt. The Politics of Food: Changing the Way the World Eats 06/16/09 (audio and video). See also Eco-Heroes

Fastfood Nation by Eric Schlosser S&E Stacks TX945.3 .S2968 2001 Google books

The Coke Machine is "A disturbing portrait drawn from an award-winning journalist's in-depth research, is the first comprehensive probe of the company....COKE is a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company. This book is not authorized by or endorsed by The Coca-Cola Company. video review

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva McH Stacks HD9000.5 .S454 2000 Links

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, about being a localvore

History of agribusiness in California

What to Eat Marion Nestle. Also Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine. audio interview

Moveable Feasts : From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat / Sarah Murray New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007 McH Stacks - HE595.F6 M87 2007

Mark Kurlansky discusses his new book, "The Food of a Younger Land." It examines the diversity and variety of pre-war American cuisine. Using abandoned documents from the Federal Writers Project, Kurlansky looks at a forgotten America where food varied greatly from city-to-city and state-to-state. (audio interview 4/09). He has also written books on salt and cod.Slate review see also video talk

Agrarian Dreams by UCSC's Julie Guthman

The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love Kimball chucked life as a Manhattan journalist to start a cooperative farm in upstate New York with a self-taught New Paltz farmer she had interviewed for a story and later married. The Harvard-educated author, in her 30s, and Mark, also college educated and resolved to "live outside of the river of consumption," eventually found an arable 500-acre farm on Lake Champlain, first to lease then to buy. In this poignant, candid chronicle by season, Kimball writes how she and Mark infused new life into Essex Farm, and lost their hearts to it.

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R Montgomery (book trailer) professor of geomorphology, University of Washington discusses the problem of global soil degradation and soil erosion and why it is one of the most significant environmental crises that face our species and planet for the next 400 years to come. another talk.

Environmental Action through Eating: Best Bang for the Buck Laura Stec, Chef, Co-author, Cool Cuisine Eugene Cordero, Associate Professor of Meteorology, SJSU, Co-author, Cool Cuisine Stec and Cordero will discuss the new economy through the eyes of the food system. Link (See aug 24)

Food, inc. : Mendel to Monsanto--the promises and perils of the biotech harvest / Peter Pringle 2003 S&E Stacks - S494.5.B563 P74 2003

Food, Inc. : how industrial food is making us sicker, fatter and poorer -- and what you can do about it / edited by Karl Weber McH Reserves - HD9005 .F6582 2009 Contents : Reforming fast food nation: a conversation with Eric Schlosser -- Exploring the corporate powers behind the food we eat: the making of Food, Inc / by Robert Kenner -- Organics-healthy food, and so much more / by Gary Hirshberg -- Food, science, and the challenge of world hunger-who will control the future? / by Peter Pringle -- The ethanol scam: burning food to make motor fuel / by Robert Bryce -- The climate crisis at the end of your fork / by Anna Lappe -- Cheap food: workers pay the price / by Arturo Rodriguez with Alexa Delwiche and Sheheryar Kaoosji -- The financial crisis and world hunger / by Muhammad Yunus -- Why bother? / by Michael Pollan -- Declare your independence / by Joel Salatin -- Eating made simple / by Marion Nestle -- Improving kids' nutrition: an action tool kit for parents and citizens / by the Center for Science in the Public Interest -- Produce to the people: a prescription for health / by Preston Maring

Lopez, Anna A , who obtained her PhD in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz, wrote The Farmworkers' Journey brings together for the first time the many facets of this issue into a comprehensive and accessible narrative: how corporate agribusiness operates, how binational institutions and laws promote the subjugation of Mexican farmworkers, how migration affects family life, how genetically modified corn strains pouring into Mexico from the United States are affecting farmers, how migrants face exploitation from employers, and more. (also Google book)

Farm City is about urban gardening in Oakland.

Environmental Working Group staff recommends: Editor-in-chief Elaine Shannon found Carol Deppe's The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times to be a fascinating read by an expert gardener and scientist.

For an eye-opening look at the food industry and the healthy eating movement, Ken always recommends Marion Nestle's Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health.

Vice President for Media Relations Alex Formuzis loves Michael Pollan's newly illustrated Food Rules: An Eater's Manual.

Alan Bjerga's Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest got glowing reviews from both Press Secretary Sara Sciammacco and Senior Communications and Policy Advisor Don Carr.

Senior Food and Agriculture Analyst Kari Hamerschlag couldn't put down Oran Hesterman's Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System For All.

Senior Scientist David Andrews discovered why there was so much media attention when he read Sarah Wu's Fed Up with Lunch: The School Lunch Project: How One Anonymous Teacher Revealed the Truth About School Lunches - And How We Can Change Them!

With so much media attention on childhood nutrition, Director of Development Jocelyn Lyle picked up Susan Levine's School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program.

Antibiotic resistance is one of our greatest contemporary health threats, according to the WHO. Emily Monosson's mind while she was writing Evolution in a Toxic World: How Life Responds to Chemical Threats. The toxicologist had experienced a personal scare when a nasty infection began streaking up her daughter's leg, and she feared it could be a resistant form of staph. But Monosson's training has taught her that we may not always be so lucky-manmade chemicals are sparking widespread evolutionary changes, with unforeseen consequences.

Videos

See Food section on Environmental Films page.

UCB Edible Education: Feeding the World had a great lineup(2011), including Raj Patel, Marion Nestle, health effects, Slow Food 2011. 2012: Food and health school lunch 2011. Vimeo alt link 2011-2

TEDtalks TEDtalks on food are great(including health effects). a sample. For example:

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. Link **** Segment on pink slime in meat.

Roger Doiron: My subversive (garden) plot looks at converging trends (TEDtalk).

Mark Bittman: What's wrong with what we eat? 2008.

How to evaluate health claims: Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science. TEDtalk

Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie's honeymoon he's enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in Spain. TEDtalk.

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making US Sick? PBS study of food and other factors.

Is Sugar Toxic? CBS 60 Minutes 4/12.

Urban Roots is a new documentary on farming in Detroit. 3/12

To Make a Farmexplores the lives of five young people who have decided to become small-scale farmers. They face daily challenges and set-backs, but their work and optimism inspires hope for the future. An intimate and practical exploration of farming and local food. See also 'Greenhorns.

Fair Food is an enlightening and inspiring guide to changing not only what we eat, but how food is grown, packaged, delivered, marketed, and sold. Oran B. Hesterman shows how our system's dysfunctions are unintended consequences of our emphasis on efficiency, centralization, higher yields, profit, and convenience--and defines the new principles, as well as the concrete steps, necessary to restructuring it. Along the way, he introduces people and organizations across the country who are already doing this work in a number of creative ways, from bringing fresh food to inner cities to fighting for farm workers' rights to putting cows back on the pastures where they belong. Google talk11/11.

Inside the Food Industry: Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Michael Moss shares his insights gained while uncovering some of the food industry's best kept secrets.Moss just won the Pulitzer Prize for his investigation of lapses in food safety surrounding contaminated hamburger meat. Moss traced the sordid history of one hamburger that left a 22-year-old woman paralyzed from E. Coli. The day after Moss' article ran in The New York Times, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsak launched a review of all department meat safety practices. 5/10

The varieties of wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside a vast global seed bank, buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse group of food-crop for whatever tomorrow may bring. TEDtalk.

Dean Ornish on effects of Western diet (see also Patterson in audio), as well as

Ellen Gustafson says hunger and obesity are two sides of the same coin. At TED, she launches The 30 Project -- a way to change how we farm and eat in the next 30 years, and solve the global food inequalities behind both epidemics.

Food Fight! The Battle to Bring Healthy Food to the State’s Poorest Commonwealth Club panel discussion. “Natural and healthy” chatter pervades much of today’s food dialogue, but this conversation is failing to engage a huge portion of the population. Disenfranchised communities house the highest rates of malnutrition and obesity. The diet offerings in poor neighborhoods are mostly fast food; fresh, chemical-free, unprocessed foods are widely unavailable. Learn about the extent of the crisis and discover the creative ways that organizations are trying to resolve this issue. 11/11

Open Source farm tools.

UCTV has a variety of talks on food and agriculture. Includes several with Michael Pollan, e.g., a discussion of the agricultural industrial complex that dominates consumer choices about what to eat. He explores the origins, evolution and consequences of this system for the nation's health and environment. He highlights the role of science, journalism, and politics in the development of a diet that emphasizes nutrition over food. Pollan also sketches a reform agenda and speculates on how a movement might change America's eating habits. He also talks about science writing, the rewards of gardening, and how students might prepare for the future. (#15882). 2/23/2009. 58 minutes.

Frances Moore-Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet, talk entitled Eco-Mind. 9/11

Global 3000 has extensive coverage of globalization issues, including food issues. For example, Agricultural Land for Investors - Why Sudan's small farmers are being displaced. It's widely predicted that, by 2050, the population of the world will reach 9 billion and the need for food will increase by 70 percent. Also, Brazil has become the world's biggest exporter of beef. The government and farmers want to double production in the next 10 years.

Why Not Eat Insects? Marcel Dicke wants us to reconsider our relationship with insects, promoting bugs as a tasty -- and ecologically sound -- alternative to meat in an increasingly hungry world. TEDtalk video.

The Global Banquet exposes globalization’s profoundly damaging effect on our food system in terms that are understandable to the non-specialist. It debunks several underlying myths about global hunger.

Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at the optimal system. (TEDtalk video).

Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in our quest for perfect produce. TEDtalk video

Lunch Line is documentary on school lunch history and current importance. Atlantic article

UCTV series on pest control and pesticides.

Food safety segment on Charlie Rose. A look at the bacteria dangerous to our health found in the foods that we eat with Michael Pollan, Michael Moss and Dr. Jeffrey Bender transcript 10/21/09. On the same show, a look at food safety with David Kessler author of "The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite" Link. Here's an audio interview .

McLibel. In the longest trial in English legal history, the "McLibel Two" represented themselves against McDonald's £10 million legal team. It is the David and Goliath story of two people who refused to say sorry.

Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm, featured in Omnivoire's Dilemma, on sustainability. Google talk based on his new book. 10/11.

Cuba: The Accidental Revolution are two one-hour documentaries celebrating the country's success in providing for itself in the face of a massive economic crisis, and how its latest revolutions, an agricultural revolution and a revolution in science and medicine are having repercussions around the world. Canadian TV Trailer.

Food Stamped2010 documentary in which a couple with kids live on a food stamp budget for a week.

"Up in Smoke," a documentary on the use of slash and burn agriculture in Central America. 6/11

Food and Addiction: The Importance of The Environmental Change. 5/6/2010. What environmental factors contribute to obesity? Kelly Brownell of Yale University is the Public Health Director at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. He explores causes and prevention of obesity and other nutrition problems. He integrates information from many disciplines and specialties ranging from the basic physiology of body weight regulation to world politics and legislation affecting issues such as agriculture subsidies and international trade policies. (#18340) UCTV

CBS food safety segment 1/10

Eat, Drink, and Be Ecological About It Panel dicussion with Anna Lappé, Author, Diet for a Hot Planet w/ Frances Moore Lappé, and Raj Patel, Activist, Author, Stuffed and Starved The Value of Nothing.

Dirt, The Movie PBS doc

Fresh (The Movie) about food production trailer. Shown in College 8 green film course. An inspiring film about the sustainable agriculture movement featuring Michael Pollan, who wrote a couple articles used in the College Eight Core Course Reader. Among several main characters, FRESH features urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, the recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, Joel Salatin, made famous by Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma; and supermarket owner, David Ball, challenging our Wal-Mart dominated economy.(2009, 72 min.) McHenry Media Center DVD7665.

Fed up! : genetic engineering, industrial agriculture, and sustainable alternatives Using archival footage interspersed with interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, this video presents an overview of our food production system and explores the unintentional effects of pesticides, the resistance of biotechnology companies to food labeling and the links between government officials and major biotechnology and chemical companies. It answers many questions regarding genetic engineering, the Green Revolution, genetic pollution and modern pesticides. McHenry VT9048 excerpt. See also GMO page

Micha Peled’s documentary Bitter Seeds the final film in Peled’s “globalization trilogy,” exposes the havoc Monsanto has wreaked on rural farming communities in India, and serves as a fierce rebuttal to the claim that genetically modified seeds can save the developing world.

Food Inc. 2009 Trailer Related interview with Pollan (video 10 min).

"The Garden" trailer (director Scott Hamilton Kennedy, the Academy Award winning documentary). The Garden is the unflinching look at the struggle between urban farmers and the City of Los Angeles and a powerful developer who wants to evict them and build warehousesinterview/excerpts

Holy Cow PBS doc on our 8,000 year history.

Ann Cooper calls herself a renegade lunch lady, works in Berkeley CA (TEDtalk video). A good overview/introduction to food issues.

Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it's putting the entire planet at risk.

Black Gold Coffee Excerpt

The Future of Food c2004 Film & Music DVD2936 (88 min.) In-depth investigation into unlabeled genetically-modified foods which have become increasingly prevalent in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat. Interview with maker The followup is Symphony of the Soil

King Corn Link UCSC McHenry DVD6291
"Ian and Curt, best friends from college on the East Coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the perverse and perplexing food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat, how we farm, and the stuff we're really made of"

Supersize Me DVD2447 Includes interview with Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, and other interviews

The Real Dirt on Farmer John, a fanciful tale of organic agriculture

The Meatrix Brilliant and funny animation

The SuperBowl Diet

Our bees are having problems, which could have a huge impact on our food supply.

Controlling Our Food documentary was aired on French television - a documentary that Americans won’t ever see. The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.

Chocolate, Cheese, Meat, and Sugar -- Physically Addictive Foods Neal Barnard MD discusses the science behind food additions. Willpower is not to blame: chocolate, cheese, meat, and sugar release opiate-like substances. Dr. Barnard also discusses how industry, aided by government, exploits these natural cravings, pushing us to eat more and more unhealthy foods. A plant-based (vegan) diet is the solution to avoid many of these problems. Neal Barnard is the founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM).

The Monsanto Story Monsanto from their early days to 1994. Subjects covered include: Agent Orange, PCBs, DDT, chemical accidents, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring. Note: Part 2 has very disturbing images.

Biochar is helping transform agriculture in India. It's made for the purpose of adding it to soil as fertilizer, and since charcoal is a stable solid rich in carbon content, it can be used to lock carbon in the soil. Global 3000.

Michael Moss: 2010 Pulitzer Prize-Winning New York Times Journalist’s Look Inside the Food Industry Link.

Toxic Imperial Valley

Audio

How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick. Interview with author of Consumption Kevin Patterson.

Food Chain Radio series.

John Robbins Heir to the Baskin-Robbins empire, Robbins choose to walk away from the multi-million dollar ice cream business to pursue a healthier and ecologically balanced lifestyle. He outlines why eating is not just a culinary act, but one with profound political, economic and environmental consequences. He offers mind-boggling information on factory farming, genetically modified foods and the economics of food production. Book.

Drought Tolerant Rice works with fungus. 7/11 Loe.org

Anna Lappe Author, Diet for a Hot Planet 5/18/11 Founding Principal, Small Planet Institute; Author, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. With as much as one-third of total greenhouse emissions related to food production, the cost of our eating habits on the environment has never been more apparent. Lappe highlights the hidden cost of America’s culinary culture and outlines seven principles for a climate-friendly diet.recorded Audio.

How to Raise your own chickens audio and text

In Boston, Patti Moreno, the self-proclaimed Garden Girl, grows so much food in her backyard that she opens up a small farmer's market each summer. LOE.org 5/10.

DIY window farms

Jonathan Safran Foer best known for the novel Everything Is Illuminated writes in his new book, Eating Animals, that he struggled with ambivalence over eating meat for most of his life, but has concluded it's quite harmful to the planet. (includes book excerpt).

McHenry Library oral history of central coast green pioneers in agriculture. Audio of San Farr talk.

Challenges of bringing fresh food to the inner city. loe.org npr 5/10

Agriculture and the Environment AL MONTNA, KAREN ROSS, JEREMY MADSEN, JONATHAN KAPLAN, KATHRYN LYDDAN Oct 09 Commonwealth Club Realplayer

Interview with food psychologist Brian Wansink about why we crave specific foods during the holidays and how our brains trick our stomachs into eating even when we're full. Rachel Herz, an expert on smell, explains how our food preferences are linked to aroma and why smells often trigger such intense memories. See also Kessler on The End of Overeating.

Luther Burbank invented over 800 varieties of plants — edible and ornamental. His Burbank potato is still the most widely grown commercial potato. Jane S. Smith, author of a new book about Burbank, describes his contributions to horticultural science and the food we eat.

"Five Farms" explores the lives of farm families who plant, feed, herd, harvest and deliver food to our markets.

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer By Novella Carpenter. includes excerpt and audio interview. More interviews.

Longnow Seminar. Pamela Ronald, Raoul Adamchak “Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future” Their book Tomorrow's Table

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