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This category relates to food production and consumption. See also Food Scarcity, as well as Genetically Modified Organisms and Chemicals, also Bio-diversity, for example bees). For labor issues, see The Grapes of Wrath page, as well as Water, as well as Land(includes soil), as well as Environmental Justice. New: Urban Agriculture and Food Safety (includes health effects like diabetes) and ofcourse Global Warming.

Overviews

Animated short video of farm policy.

Agroecology applies the principles of ecology to the design and management of sustainable food systems, pioneered at UCSC. Our Food Is Killing the Planet — But It Doesn’t Have To 2/19

Agro-Ecology overview TEDtalk.

Raj Patel overview video. BigThink big picture. Causes of Hunger (2012). His new project is Generation Food shows how ordinary women and men around the world are overcoming obstacles and "setting the table" for themselves, their communities, and generations to come. 10/15.

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

10 of the Most Common Ways World Hunger Is Misunderstood By Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins.

Food vs. Fuel: Diversion of Crops Could Cause More Hunger by David J. Tenenbaum. Another take on the subject (pdf 2007).

Climate change and resource scarcity (including food and water) will lead to war (again). 4/13.

The complicated science of organic food, in one awesome podcast 9/16.

News Articles and Reports

News Sources

Grist stories

Alternet coverage

Global Possibilities.

KQED Quest Bay Area PBS).

Stories

New report details 10 ‘critical transitions’ to tackle the climate crisis and feed the world UCSC agro-ecology work is key. 30% of GHG comes from food system 9/19.

CDC: The number of Americans dying from antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’ vastly underestimated 11/19.

We mapped how food gets from farms to your home 10/19. (see maps below)

Remember 'Pink Slime'? It Can Now Be Marketed as 'Ground Beef' 2/19.

Our Food Is Killing the Planet — But It Doesn’t Have To 2/19.

Massive Study Finds Eating Organic Slashes Cancer Risks 10/18.

UCSC's American Indian Resource Center has brought great people here to speak such as Winona LaDuke, Emily Houzous (nursing) and authors of “Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing”, Catriona Rueda Esquibel and CSU East Bay professor Luz Calvo. here 2/10/18

Eat Less Water, by Florencia Ramirez, audio interview 6/18.

Presidents Who Shaped the U.S. Food System (for Better and for Worse) 2/18.

Foodies Guide to Capitalism: Eric Holt-Giménez on the role of agriculture and food systems in capitalism’s development, and on forms of resistance to the current corporate food regime. audio interview;text interviewvideo interview 1/18. see Colonialism.

How California's Fires Are Linked to Climate Chaos, Soil Health and Food Choices 1/18.

Your Food Has a Climate Footprint: Here’s What You Can Do About It produced by the University of California in partnership with Slug Sanjayan 12/17.

'Antibiotic Apocalypse' as Livestock Is Force-Fed 80% of Prescribed Antibiotics Worldwide 11/17.

Report: Global Food Chain Increasingly Threatened by Corporate Consolidation 11/17.

Don't Believe These Dangerous Myths About Industrial Farming : Humanity is on track to deplete the world's soils within 60 years. There's a solution—but we may not use it in time. 11/17

Global Food Crops Also Face Earth's Sixth Great Mass Extinction 9/17.

Environmental and Public Health Disaster Awaits—If USDA Gives Organic Label to Hydroponics 11/17.

Tyson Foods Linked to the Largest Toxic Dead Zone in U.S. History America's largest meat producer must clean up its act. 10/17

Regenerative Agriculture: Our Best Hope of Cooling the Planet 10/17

The Argument That Industrial Farming Is an Efficient Way to Grow Food Is a Dangerous Myth That Risks All Life on Earth: Humanity is on track to deplete the world's soils within 60 years. There's a solution—but we may not use it in time. 10/17.

Big Food Is Worried About Millennials Avoiding Animal Products 10/17.

A New Food Label Is Coming Soon and It Goes 'Beyond Organic' 9/17.

AI-Powered Food Computers Are Designing New Ways of Growing Crops. Farmers around the world will soon have access to an open source of information on how to grow tastier crops in increasingly unpredictable climates. 7/17.

How an Army of Ocean Farmers Is Starting an Economic Revolution 4/16. but Fish Farms have problems too: EcoWatch 9/17. see Fish.

Beyond Organic: How Regenerative Farming Can Save Us From Global Catastrophe 6/17 see Global Warming.

Scientists Uncover the True Cost of a Loaf of Bread 6/17.

Farms Could Slash Pesticide Use Without Crop Losses, Research Reveals: Virtually all farms could significantly cut their pesticide use while producing just as much food. 4/17

How a Supermarket Sales Gimmick Has Become a Major Driver of Climate Change: As uneaten food rots in landfills, it releases a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.

50,000 Seeds Deposited to 'Doomsday Vault' Housing World's Largest Collection of Crop Diversity.

THE STAGGERING SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF FOOD WASTE: During this season of charitable spirit, holiday meal preparation, and reckless consumer behavior, the amount of food we throw in the trashcan deserves a moment of our attention. Fifty-two million tons of food are wasted by consumers and consumer-facing businesses annually — over 80 percent of all U.S. food waste. Currently, less than 10 percent of that food is recovered by reaching the 1 in 7 Americans without enough to eat. Food that goes to landfills breaks down in a heap without oxygen, producing methane, a gas with 86 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. These emissions are no small matter. Considered on a national scale, organic matter rotting in landfills accounts for 1/5 of methane emissions. In fact, if global food loss and waste were its own country, it would be the world’s third largest source of greenhouse gases. 12/16

Global warming effect on food security by Michael Mann.

Lab-Grown Meat Is the Future of Food: Are You Ready to Take a Bite? (Video) It's better for animals, it's better for people, and it may even taste better than the real thing.

10 Reasons You Should Start Foraging for Your Own Food.

Hunger at UCSC 5/16 More.2011.

EPA Succumbs to Pressure From Monsanto, Delays Glyphosate Cancer Review The agency's advisory panel meetings were postponed following intense lobbying by Big Ag industry, including Monsanto.EPA also not protecting bees See Bees 10/16.

Billions of Gallons of Animal Waste From Factory Farms Poses Health Risks in Wake of Hurricane Matthew see climate change and Water 10/16.

Why Did the Obamas Fail to Take On Corporate Agriculture? Pollan 10/15. see Eco-heroes.

The Planet's Food Supply Could Be Saved By a Kind of Bee You Probably Have Never Heard Of 6/16.

Agribiz puts out 25% of GHG, but Soil can take CO2 out of atmosphere.

Antibiotic use went up last year. Should we be freaking out? 12/15.

If We’re Going To End Factory Farms, We Need To Eat Way Less Meat: Meat consumption is down after decades of growth, but the U.S. still eats more of it than any other country. 12/15.

Pizza is the new crack?... "highly processed foods … may share characteristics with drugs of abuse (e.g., high dose, rapid rate of absorption) … [and] appear to be particularly associated with 'food addiction.'" 10/15.

Do industrial agricultural methods actually yield more food per acre than organic ones? from Grist 10/15.

Degenerative or Regenerative Agriculture?: the word “sustainability” is meaningless to consumers and the public. It’s overused, misused and it has been shamelessly co-opted by corporations for the purpose of greenwashing.

6 Things to Know About the EPA’s New Pesticide Rules For the first time since 1992, the EPA has updated rules governing the use of pesticides, which will protect the more than 2 million workers who produce America's food. 10/15

Poor people do not eat more fast food 9/15. But might drink more soda.

Environmentalists Sue EPA Over Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico, related CAFO waste 8/15.

The Dark Side of McDonald's World-Famous Fries 8/15.

What’s the Beef with the U.S./China Chicken Deal? 7/15.

10 Foods Banned in Other Parts of the World, But Not in America 7/15.

25 Year Study Reveals Eco-Farming To Be Economically Feasible And Sustainable 5/15.

Giant Solar Floating Farm Could Produce 8,000 Tons of Vegetables Annually (Aztecs way ahead of us here) 6/15.

Factory Farms Are a #LoadOfCrap, Says New Report, includes stats 5/15.

EWG's new interactive rate your food site 10/14.

“Superbug” Threat because of 80% of antibiotics used on farm animals. 3/15 but sharks may have answer. See Bio-mimicry.

Certified Naturally Grown: A New Way to Identify Pesticide-Free, Non-GMO Food: Naturally grown farming, considered to be the grassroots alternative to certified organic agriculture, requires a national certification by the CNG. The CNG conducts rigorous oversight to assure that all food labeled Certified Naturally Grown is grown without the use of synthetic chemicals or GMOs, being used by a growing number of small farmers who cannot afford the expense of getting an organic certification from the USDA. 3/15.

Seed Libraries Are Sprouting Up Across the Planet, and Corporate Dominated Govts Are Trying to Stop Them (see Food Inc seed saver). 3/15.

WWOOF stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms or Willing Workers of Organic Farms. The site connects farmers looking to host with would-be apprentices looking to gain hands-on experience on organic farms. In exchange for about four to six hours of work per day, WWOOF hosts offer food, accommodations and opportunities to learn. 1/15.

Chicken Imports from China a Raw Deal for U.S. Consumers 11/14 see China and [[[Food_Safety|Food Safety]].

Two Young Entrepreneurs Offer Way to Grow Food in Dead of Winter The converted shipping containers are “outfitted with vertical hydroponics, high-efficiency LED lights and an automated climate control system. 2/15.

What McDonald’s still isn’t telling you about its chicken nuggets 12/14.

Applying Compost To Soil Can Help Cut Carbon Pollution and save water 10/14. Agriculture can take carbon out of the atmosphere vs adding to GHG. Related, Terra Preta has amazing properties.

Whole Foods Launches Radical New Food Labeling Plan 10/14 see Food Safety.

Is Livestock Antibiotic Use Breeding Superbugs? 10/14 see Food Safety.

EPA Approves Controversial ‘Superweed’ Pesticide for GMO Crops 10/14 see Chemicals.

Foods system effect on climate 6/14.

farming is so much harder than just getting stoned and picking tomatoes Grist 6/14.

101 Facts That Should Make You Hopeful About the Future of Food 6/14.

5 Unhealthy Foods Engineered to Be Addictive 6/14.

10 Years After Trying to Live off the Grid, Farmer Wonders, 'What am I Doing Living on This Little Island?'

Get your fill of bananas now; they’re about to get destroyed by fungus 12/13. one species monoculture, not the 1st time.

More corn grown in U.S. this year than ever before (drought cut in half last year's). Thanks, biofuels. An update of Pollan's critique of industrial corn. See also food scarcity.

Global warming and food scarcity.

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

Treehugger coverage on bees includes bad news update 11/13. More.

Images of school lunches

DDT linked to obesity. 11/13.

Ractopamine: The Meat Additive on Your Plate That's Banned Almost Everywhere But America 11/13.

9 problems with meat 9/13.

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

Antibiotic resistance;Antibiotic resistant "superbugs" from CAFO's 9/13. New Frontline PBS documentary. NPR coverage. Wildlife effects. Antibiotic Resistance. Be Afraid. REALLY! Be VERY Afraid! 12/13.

Biochar, a substance that a small but growing number of scientists and private companies believe could enable extraction of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a meaningful scale. Big contrast to conventional ag.

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.6/13.

PBS Food for 9 Billion includes farmers preserving forest, bloomuing the desert and a Singapore skyscraper (video).

Organic farming sucks (up carbon) 6/13.

The Farm Bill is a climate bill. 5/13

Using Virtual Reality to lose weight.

The Trouble With Bread: What I Discovered When I Tried to Get to the Bottom of My Gluten Intolerance 6/13.

Test tube meat

Goodland and Anhang found that most of what we need to do to mitigate the climate crisis can be achieved “by replacing just one quarter of today’s least eco-friendly food products” — read: animal products — “with better alternatives. 5/13

Venture capitalists are funding green food innovation 5/13.

Roundup, An Herbicide, Could Be Linked To Parkinson's, Cancer And Other Health Issues, Study Shows 4/13.

Whole Foods GMO Labeling To Be Mandatory By 2018 3/13

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.

Indian farmers smash crop yield records without GMOs 2/13.

Burger King meat contaminated with horse. 1/13

Report card on brands we buy every day

Some proponents of the organic food movement recommend unpasteurized milk as a "natural" alternative to normal, pasteurized milk; this article by the FDA explains why this is a bad idea.

Stealth Farm bill would cut funding to reduce fertilizer runoff that leads to dead zones see also drinking water. Extensive coverage of environmental and health effects of farming from EWG.org.

13 New Year's Resolutions to improve the food system.

How Walmart is devouring the food system (the biggest seller of organic food in US?) 12/12

Prison may become new farm training center 12/12.

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

Food waste in rich and poor countries for different reasons. TEDtalk.

Crop rotation rediscovered 11/6

Only Organics Can Feed the Hungry World: Here's Why (editorial) 10/12.

Pesticide Use Proliferating With GMO Crops, Study Warns 10/12

Who farms in America? 10/12

Bhutan wants to be the world’s first 100 percent organic country. If Bhutan were a person, it would be that friend who somehow manages to eat only superfoods, go to yoga at least three times a week, and still be totally fun to hang out with. Best known for its Gross National Happiness model (on which it scores quite high), the tiny Himalayan country now says it wants also to be the first nation to go 100 percent organic. 10/12

New Study Reveals Fast-Food Logos "Imprinted" in Children’s Minds 9/12.

Controversial Stanford says organic food not more nutritious 9/12.

EWG guide to good cheap food.

New York tries to limit soda serving size (in the face of obesity epidemic, and the fact that this "liquid candy" bypasses our fullness trigger). Fast food and soda industry is fighting back. Locally corporations use their free speech rights to hide in Richmond CA. 9/12

'The Clean 15' 2012 Shopper's Guide To Pesticides Ranks Fruits And Vegetables. 6.12 See also The Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15 foods with most and least chemicals. 5/10

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

Seed Library, including East Palo Alto, supports urban agriculture. 4/12

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.

Food Ark, is about saving seeds in the Arctic to protect the precious genetic resource.

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.

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

"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.

How to make chemical apple pie without apples.

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

Fast Food oddities

Are three meals a day best?

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

"Consider the Lobster" is an excellent essay on the ethics of eating animals by David Foster Wallace.

Grist has excellent articles on food, some samples are below:

How to be a locavore (that is, eating food locally produced) link

Food deserts in CA Central Valley. 3/11

Growing vast monocrops of cotton, it turns out, is a dirty business. Globally, cotton occupies 2.4 percent of cropland -- and burns through 16 percent of the insecticides used every year, the Environmental Justice Foundation reports. Indeed, conventional cotton production in the United States has long required a veritable monsoon of poisons. Cotton can even give even industrial corn a run for its money in terms of environmental impact. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, pesticide applications for cotton run "3 to 5 times greater per hectare than applications of pesticides to corn." To try and stem the chemical cascade, farmers in cotton country have largely switched to seeds genetically modified to contain a pesticide and to withstand Roundup, Monsanto's broad-based herbicide. Today, upwards of 60 percent of cotton grown in the U.S. contains those traits. Trouble is, that "solution" to cotton's chemical dependence is already failing More 5/12/10

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

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

A new report reveals that the nation's largest private agribusiness company -- Minneapolis-based Cargill -- is a major culprit behind rainforest destruction. It turns out that Cargill, who both owns their own palm oil plantations and buys and trades palm oil from others, is directly destroying rainforests in Indonesia to produce palm oil, endangering orangutans, among other species. 5/10 Cargill also has a stealth campaign to undermine efforts to lower salt.

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

Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico from fertilizer (2/10). More depth on Nitrogen

New FAO study shows that heavy-chemical agriculture is not more productive. 11/09

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

A personal essay about being a family farmer Wired Magazine's excellent look at current status and future of food

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.

Websites

EWG's new interactive rate your food site 10/14.

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. They have a series on CA food.series Size Matters 5/15. ***

MayoClinic's analysis of organic food.

Environmental Defense Fund research on food and farm policies.

Center for Food Safety also covers dirty money lobbying on GMO's.

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.

Food+Tech Connect is a media and research company building a network for innovators transforming the business of food. Through news, analysis and research, we help people identify and understand market needs, emerging technologies and successful business models. Through events, we connect the leading thinkers and doers from the worlds of food, agriculture, health and technology. Our goal is to accelerate innovation and feed the growing hunger to hack a healthier, more equitable and more profitable future for food. Meat hackathon online conversation 12/7/12 (see events page).

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. They have a series on CA food.series Size Matters 5/15. ***

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 see also WWOOFing (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms).

Aquaponics combines fish with organic gardening.

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

New Tools and Techniques

Agroecology applies the principles of ecology to the design and management of sustainable food systems, pioneered at UCSC.

Do Something's Images of school lunches

Vertical gardens

Aquaponics combines fish with organic gardening.

Open Source farm tools.

Solar Ninjas and Guerrilla gardeners strike again! Can no one stop them?!

DIY window farms

Maps, Databases, Infographics and Interactive

See also info By Place

Deep dive into players Neo, take the red pill and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.

We mapped how food gets from farms to your home 10/19.

EWG's new interactive rate your food site 10/14.****

Trace Your Food Back to the Farm With RealTimeFarms.com 9/15.

Buycott app helps you avoid supporting Monsanto and other terrible companies 9/13.

Food Insecurity (hunger) in US by state/county. New Food Desert map 3/13.

Report card on brands we buy every day

How Walmart is Devouring the Food System (Infographic) also good on consolidation of food system by small number of companies).

Find good food by place via Eatwell Guide, see also another tool Eat Local shows where to get local food and how to get there.

Fair Food Network searchable database for local organizations.

Farm Subsidy map/database.

New tool maps and grades "food deserts" to lure supermarkets.USDA version.

US organic farms

Soda consumption.

Waking Mars is a game about gardening, botany, and ecology.

Agroecology versus Industrial Agriculture: Infographic

Food infographics

Big Bad Corn infographic.

People

(See also Eco-heroes and Activism)

17 Food Heroes Who Are Making the World a Better Place see Eco-heroes 3/17.

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).

Frances Moore Lappé is the co-founder of Food First and the co-author of the book World Hunger: 10 Myths. She is also the author of Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want (March 2010) and 17 other books, beginning with the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet (which convinced a younf Steve Jobs to be a vegetarian). 10 of the Most Common Ways World Hunger Is Misunderstood. mentor to Aurora Winslade, UC Santa Cruz's sustainability director.

Lester Brown, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C. BBC Radio commentator Peter Day calls him "one of the great pioneer environmentalists." Brown is the author or co-author of over 50 books on global environmental issues and his works have been translated into more than forty languages. His most recent book is Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization text interview and links, Video of talk at Google (1/2006), free download of new book. "Saving Civilization Is Not A Spectator Sport"audio Recorded Nov 10 2009in San Francisco, Commonwealth Club (Realaudio). "World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse" (video interview) 6/11

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.

Wes Jackson, founder of the Land Institute is figuring out how to grow food in accordance with natural principles on the Great Plains prairie. See Sanders, Scott R. “Learning from the Prairie.” In The Force of Spirit in the course reader. 2011 text interview and 2009 interview(text and audio).

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. New Book Food Politics (video interview) youtube booktv 30 min. Soda research, race matters 10/15.

Raj Patel (video biography) in Stuffed and Starved 2008 EON talk includes Green Revolution and World bank ***video interview and discussed in videos. BigThink big picture overview.Extensive talk (video) based on book. He works with Food First. 2010 Panel with Anna Lappe (video) His newer book The Value of Nothing review) also has extensive info on food. Video talk for example, the real cost of a hamburger. "Poverty with added vitamins? Competing ways to govern the world food system" (roots in colonianalism) (also 2015). Generation Food shows how ordinary women and men around the world are overcoming obstacles and "setting the table" for themselves, their communities, and generations to come. 10/15.

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. Deep Agriculture 90 min LongNow talk video. New Book: Cooking 5/13.

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. Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front by Joel SalatinPolyface, 338 pp. American Meat (video). 2013 UCB talk(video). Rebuttal of 10/15 NYT article.

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

Peter Singer, important thinker on ethics and animal rights, see books.

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). She has been a pioneer in school gardens. A new Waters biography.

UCSC People and Local Organizations

See also here

2015-2016 Campus Food & Garden Guide

UCSC Food for Thought blog has info on buying local and vegan.

UCSC student food projects.

Global Food Initiative fellowships to advance sustainable food systems. 10/15.

OPERS/Recreation Dept Food Journey classes

A new book published by the UCSC Library’s Regional History Project offers a sparkling window into the 40-year history of how UC Santa Cruz--and California’s Central Coast—became leaders in the organic farming and sustainable agriculture movement. Archive. Audio of San Farr talk.

Caffeine culture: Anthropology student traces coffee’s route from farm to cup When Katie Slocum, an anthropology major at UC Santa Cruz, got her first espresso fix at Verve, she had no idea that a year later she would be following the company to a Honduran mountaintop on a journey through the coffee supply chain. 6/15

Mark Lipson (MRL '81) helped bring organic labeling policy to the nation 8/15.

Agroecology: Prof. Gliessman works with communities to increase yields in rainforests without harming it. Affiliated organizations: CAN offers internships. He co-edited Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America. McH Stacks HD9199.M62 C66 2008

Sean Swezey's (Core course instructor) research interests emphasize the practical application of pest management theory and on-farm research to production of organic strawberries, apples, and other California organic crops.

Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (offers apprentice opportunities)

PICA (Live and work in The Village)

LifeLab teaches kids about sustainability nd food through school gardens.

Tim Galarneau was recently profiled in Mother Jones news on sustainable food.

Drew Goodman, organic farmer.

Julie Guthman (Kresge, '79, sociology), researches organic agriculture. audio interview on her 2011 book Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism UC Press, 2011. Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California, the first social science study of organic foods in the United States, has been updated 2014. link.

Eric Holt-Gimenez Executive Director at Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy.

Kenny Baker (Kresge '07, cultural anthropology and environmental studies), started Lonely Mountain Farm, sells in Bay Area farmers' markets.

Melissa Caldwell, food policy expert, presented at the global food crisis at international conference sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Nancy Chen breaks down divisions between food and medicine, and she underscores that medicinal foods are the "front line of healing."

Melanie DuPuis is the author of the book Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink (McHenry GT2920.M55 D86 2002) and numerous scholarly articles on food and food-related topics. She is currently co-editor of an issue of the current special "politics of food" issue of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture

Steve Gliessman works to improve organic agriculture and Fair Trade. City on a Hill article on his work with coffee. Also excerpts from his book Agroecology : The Ecology Of Sustainable Food Systems / Steven R. Gliessman 2007 S&E Stacks S589.7 .G58 2007. Agroecology applies the principles of ecology to the design and management of sustainable food systems, pioneered at UCSC. UCB Edible Education talk.

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)

Food Waste in Santa Cruz article by UCSC student. 3/11

Oakland's Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First shapes how people think by analyzing the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.

Bay Area food organizations

Books

Michael Pollan reviews five new food books:

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.

Consulting the Genius of the Place : an ecological approach to a new agriculture / Wes Jackson UCSC S&E Stacks S441 .J247 2010.

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

Foodopoly by Wenonah Hauter, organic farm owner and executive director of Food & Water Watch(SF internships), argues that agribusinesses, such as ConAgra, Kraft, and Tyson, have hurt small farmers, marginalized the health of crops, and limited consumer choices. The author presents her thoughts on how America's agricultural system should be reformed (video).

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.

Locavore's Dilemma.

Eat Less Water, by Florencia Ramirez, audio interview 6/18 see Water.

The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan (she spoke at UCSC). Tracie McMillan's book has made headlines recently after a surprise attack by Rush Limbaugh. After going undercover to labor in the fields of industrial farms, stock groceries at Walmart, and work in the kitchen at Applebee's, McMillan—named "a voice the food world needs" by the New York Times—has some eye-opening tales to tell about the inner workings of the corporate food system.

Jo Robinson, author of the new book Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimal Health (Little, Brown, 2013), says the most common modern apple varieties are nutritionally inferior to their wild-growing ancestors. Since the advent of agriculture some 10,000 years ago, she argues, humans have bred fruits and vegetables for mildness and sweetness, and we’ve lost thousands of healthful and more boldly flavored varieties in the process. We’ve sacrificed antioxidants, vitamins, and fiber for sugar and carbs. But all is not lost. Robinson spent the last 15 years poring over data to find fruits and vegetables that have retained the nutritional character of their wild forebears.

Andy Dyer, professor of biology at the University of South Carolina, author of Chasing the Red Queen: The Evolutionary Race Between Agricultural Pests and Poisons [abstract) published by Slug led Island Press. Audio interview 2/15.

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

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.

David Robinson Simon, Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much – and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter - See more at: link

Farm Together Now portraits of the new food movement.

Diet for a Dead Planet: How The Food Industry Is Killing Us by Christopher Cook a video interview 30 min. 2007

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.

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

"The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do To Avoid It," by Julian Cribb. NYT review.

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., $22.95 (paper)

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., $20.00 (paper)


The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society by Janet A. Flammang University of Illinois Press, 325 pp., $70.00; $25.00 (paper) 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 also BookTV.

Nabhan, Gary Paul. Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods Interview.

Cool Cuisine - Taking the Bite out of Global Warming Google book

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.

NPR interview with Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, gives us a primer on the expansive history — and the endangered future — of this seedless, sexless fruit.

Insatiable Appetite by Richard Tucker covers a number of tropical resources, including rubber, bananas and coffee. Used as a text in Core.

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

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery. Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil—as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations. UC Press

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!

Legal Fellow Etan Yeshua - a true tomato lover - recommends Barry Estabrook's Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit.

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. KQED Quest PBS coverage.

See Raj Patel in Raj Patel overview People] above.

UCB Edible Education **** 101 amazing lineup includes: “The Hands That Feed You” by Eric Schlosser. Also Steve Gliessman on agro-ecology.

Feeding the World had a great lineup, including Raj Patel (on global food system) ***, Marion Nestle, health effects, Slow Food, Van Jones, Food and Environment (Lappe) 2011. Edible Education 103: "The Psychology of Food" by Paul Rozin (2012). Pollan, many more. Patel 2012 on Green Revolution Joel Salatin (Polyface Farm); Eating Oil, Eating Sunshine: Michael Pollan; food and health;

Vimeo alt link 2011-2.

Agroecology: Who will feed us in a planet in crisis? with Miguel A. Altieri UCB.

Food Fights for the 21st Century: Women's Voices Driving Change panel with Deborah Koons Garcia, Filmmaker, Director, Symphony of the Soil and The Future of Food (06/24/2014). See Women.

The Trouble with Antibiotics PBS Frontline oct 2014.

PBS Food for 9 Billion includes farmers preserving forest, bloomuing the desert and a Singapore skyscraper (video).

LongNow has talks, on food: Jim Richardson: Heirlooms: Saving Humanity's Food Legacy

Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture.

Meeting Tomorrow's Food Needs: Truck farms are catching on in New York. In Sweden, Plantagon, a leader in vertical urban agriculture, plans to feed tomorrow's mega cities with skyscraper farms. And with more droughts and water shortages likely, scientists at Penn State University are finding new ways to help plants adapt to tough conditions.

Kimberly Levin’s gripping debut feature film RUNOFF is getting people talking about what goes into our food, the way we treat our land and water, and the ethical questions at the heart of everyday survival. 8/15.

Documentaries

Netflix's recent documentary series, Rotten, tells the true and sometimes gruesome story of what goes on behind the scenes of global food production Rotten's first episode, Lawyers, Guns and Honey, digs deep into problems beyond the well-documented disappearance of bees and bee colonies. 3/18.

WASTED! The Story of Food Waste trailer 11/17.

One Man's Journey From Industrial Factory Farmer to Sustainable, Regenerative Beef Farmer (Video). One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts, by filmmaker Peter Byck is the second film in Byck’s Carbon Nation: Soil Carbon Cowboy series 10/16.

New: The Farmer And The Chef: People around the world know Manresa by its stellar reputation, but few know of Love Apple Farms, the biodynamic farm that almost exclusively provides Chef David Kinch with produce and inspiration. Cynthia Sandberg, the eponymous farmer, details her transition from lawyer to proprietor of an 80-acre project nestled in the Santa Cruz hills.

My Father's Garden excerpt, a talk by the subject of the video. UCSC Media Center DVD8377 VT6057 (1995)

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.

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 24 min Trailer Related interview with Pollan (video 10 min). **** Highly recommended.

"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

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

“Farmageddon” peddles food for thought, posing such questions as: Why is it so easy to buy cigarettes but so difficult to purchase raw, unpasteurized milk? review 6.12.

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." Highly recommended.extended excerpt(alt link).

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.

Gardens of Destiny  : The Organic way with biodiversity Media Center DVD9267.

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. See also The Power of Community: how Cuba survived peak oil (2006) UCSC Media Center DVD4796.

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.

Black Gold Coffee Excerpt.

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

TEDtalks TEDtalks on food (see also here) are great. 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.

Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal TEDtalk. (his book).

Mohamed Hijri: A simple solution to the coming phosphorus crisis 11/13. see Mushroom.

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

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. his book, The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future. In his book, Barber moves beyond the farm-to-table movement, which championed the “second plate.” He offers a revolutionary new way of eating, the “third plate,” which is rooted in cooking with the whole farm in mind. After researching farm communities throughout the world for more than a decade, Barber concluded America’s food needs a radical transformation to ensure the future of our health, food and land. Barber has given two wildly popular Ted Talks, the first of which is about a small farm in Spain that produced foie gras.

Costa Georgiadis - Future Farmers (Australia, school gardens). TEDx

Urban Gardening. TEDx

Permaculture overview (sounds quite a bit like agro-ecology, sustainable). Costa Rica Espanol.

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

Food Ark preserves seed bio-diversity.

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

Is Sugar Toxic? CBS 60 Minutes 4/12. See also Lustig

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

Food and Climate 2008 panel discussion. CA 2012 Heat and Harvest

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Podcasts: 6 Food Podcasts You Can Sink Your Teeth Into 12/17.

The complicated science of organic food, in one awesome podcast 9/16.

Martha Rosenberg, Born with a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health, exposes what goes on behind the scenes in the food and drug industries. With the help of doctors, experts and researchers, she reveals regulatory lapses and what she calls government complicity in undermining the public health interview

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

Specific Foods

Bananas

Breakfast of Biodiversity : The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction / by John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto ; foreword by Vandana Shiva Oakland, Calif. : Institute for Food and Development Policy, c1995 S&E Stacks SD414.T76 V36 1995 c.3 Online Includes bananas.

Bananapocolypse Now? 11/11

US corps fund right-wing death squads to suppress workers

NPR interview with Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, gives us a primer on the expansive history — and the endangered future — of this seedless, sexless fruit.

Bananeras By Dana Frank (UCSC) explores gender and labor aspects

Insatiable Appetite by Richard Tucker covers a number of tropical resources, including rubber, bananas and coffee. Used as a text in Core.

A fun article on the sex life of bananas (warning, explicit and probably tasteless content).

Reinventing the banana at EARTH U interview with founder.

"Bananas," a musical journey by Saturn's Return on DDT and labor.

Coffee

Caffeine culture: Anthropology student traces coffee’s route from farm to cup When Katie Slocum, an anthropology major at UC Santa Cruz, got her first espresso fix at Verve, she had no idea that a year later she would be following the company to a Honduran mountaintop on a journey through the coffee supply chain. 6/15

Coffee Rust Eradicated In Colombia's Growing Regions, Marking A First For Latin America 4/13. Update 5/14.

NPR coverage of coffee includes history and genetic diversity, more history and certifcation.

Coffee Not Just for the Birds Shade-grown coffee is sometimes called "bird friendly coffee," but a new paper in the journal Current Biology suggests that the plantations also help maintain the genetic diversity of native tree species. (ScFri audio)

Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America. McH Stacks HD9199.M62 C66 2008. Co-edited by Gliessman and bacon et al.

Majka Burhardt, Coffee Story: Ethiopia

Black Gold Video on Coffee Excerpt

Nell Newman, Founder of Newman's Own Organics and Santa Cruz local interviewed by Josh Kornbluth (iTunes podcast video).

Birdsong & Coffee: A Wake Up Call. Coffee drinkers will be astonished to learn that they hold in their hands the fate of farm families, farming communities, and entire ecosystems in coffee-growing regions like Costa Rica. In this film we hear from UCSC experts and students, from coffee lovers and bird lovers, and-most importantly-from coffee farmers themselves.

Newman Grist interview 2004

Uncommon Grounds: the History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World by Mark Pendergrast [(excerpts). UCSC S&E Stacks TX415 .P46 1999

City on a Hill (ucsc student newspaper) article on Steve Gliessman and CAN

Confronting the Coffee Crisis : fair trade, sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems in Mexico and Central America Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008 McH Stacks HD9199.M62 C66 2008 also available digitally.

Audio interview on shade grown coffee 1/09

Insatiable Appetite by Richard Tucker covers a number of tropical resources, including rubber, bananas and coffee. Used as a text in Core.

Breakfast of Biodiversity : The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction / by John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto ; foreword by Vandana Shiva Oakland, Calif. : Institute for Food and Development Policy, c1995 S&E Stacks SD414.T76 V36 1995 c.3 Online Includes bananas.

Fair trade coffee, a basic video overview.

Nicki Cole did her doctoral work at UCSB on ethical consumption of coffee.

The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop, (co-authored with Nina Luttinger) was republished in 2006 by The New Press by Gregory Dicum.

Fish (see also Overfishing)

Seafood Watch's new dirty dozen fish that are bad for you and the planet (and better alternatives and data).

How an Army of Ocean Farmers Is Starting an Economic Revolution 4/16. but Fish Farms have problems too: EcoWatch 9/17.

Supermarkets Selling Shrimp Peeled by Slaves 12/15 see Labor.

Ocean 2012 has nice map animated version

Paul Greenberg: The Future Of 'Wild Fish', text and audio of interview with author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (also links to related stories) excerptPaul Greenberg, author of "Four Fish: the Future of the Last Wild Food," interview 8/10.

What we don’t want to know about chicken and fish editorial. 1/13.

Meat/Poultry (See also Water.

The Meatrix, clever animated video. ***

Remember 'Pink Slime'? It Can Now Be Marketed as 'Ground Beef' 2/19

'Antibiotic Apocalypse' as Livestock Is Force-Fed 80% of Prescribed Antibiotics Worldwide 11/17

Tyson Foods Linked to the Largest Toxic Dead Zone in U.S. History America's largest meat producer must clean up its act. 10/17.

Dairy Is Bad for Humans, Cows and the Planet: So Why Are Public Schools Required to Offer Milk With Every Meal? It's time for our elected leaders to stand up to the dairy lobby. 10/17.

One Man's Journey From Industrial Factory Farmer to Sustainable, Regenerative Beef Farmer (Video). One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts, by filmmaker Peter Byck is the second film in Byck’s Carbon Nation: Soil Carbon Cowboy series; 10/16.

Lab-Grown Meat Is the Future of Food: Are You Ready to Take a Bite? (Video) 10/16.

If We’re Going To End Factory Farms, We Need To Eat Way Less Meat: Meat consumption is down after decades of growth, but the U.S. still eats more of it than any other country. 12/15.

Aziz Ansari Blasts Factory Farming for Cruelty to Chickens See Humor.

Antibiotic use went up last year. Should we be freaking out? 12/15.

The Myth of Sustainable Meat rebuttal by Salatin 10/15.

America has reached peak cow: Why it’s time to reconsider the human-bovine partnership 3/15.

Chicken Imports from China a Raw Deal for U.S. Consumers 11/14 see China and [[[Food_Safety|Food Safety]].

What McDonald’s still isn’t telling you about its chicken nuggets 12/14.

A recent documentary, Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, asks why most leading environmental organizations are ignoring a leading cause of environmental damage.] 10/14.

Foods system effect on climate 6/14.

Decoding food labels 2/14 Poultry labels also pathogens see also Food Safety

9 problems with meat 9/13.

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. Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front by Joel SalatinPolyface, 338 pp. American Meat (video).

How Chicken Is Killing the Planet.

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

Basics on CAFO's (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) use of antibiotics.

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

Arsenic in pork and chicken 5/13.

How Big Pork Screws Small Towns 11/12.

China's meat consumption increases 11/12 video.

Synthetic hormones 5/13.

Leather and meat without killing animals TEDtalk. see also Test tube meat update 5/13 "Test tube" meat (yeah, it's a Wikipedia article, but vouched for 11/12, though note caveats on page). See Food+Tech Connect on r-imagining meat stories.

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).

What we don’t want to know about chicken and fish editorial. 1/13 (draws on Foer).

“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.

Cows and methane (audio and text). 8/11

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.

Chickens How to raise them at UCSC's The Farm. The Story of an Egg video.

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

Fruits and Vegetables

Massive Study Finds Eating Organic Slashes Cancer Risks 10/18

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.

Bananas

Breakfast of Biodiversity : The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction / by John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto ; foreword by Vandana Shiva Oakland, Calif. : Institute for Food and Development Policy, c1995 S&E Stacks SD414.T76 V36 1995 c.3 Online Includes bananas.

Bananapocolypse Now? 11/11

US corps fund right-wing death squads to suppress workers

NPR interview with Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, gives us a primer on the expansive history — and the endangered future — of this seedless, sexless fruit.

Bananeras By Dana Frank (UCSC) explores gender and labor aspects

Insatiable Appetite by Richard Tucker covers a number of tropical resources, including rubber, bananas and coffee. Used as a text in Core.

A fun article on the sex life of bananas (warning, explicit and probably tasteless content).

Reinventing the banana at EARTH U interview with founder.

"Bananas," a musical journey by Saturn's Return on DDT and labor.

Food History

UCSC has been at the center of the agro-ecology movement from the beginning, starting with Alan Chadwick and current emergence of the student food movement. This is explored in an oral history project at McHenry Library.

Green Revolution

Norman Borlaug.

Patel talk at UCB Edible 101 (includes Gill Tract activists, history); Raj Patel article

A Dangerous Fixation: Synthetic nitrogen was born 100 years ago; it’s why half of us are alive, but leads to dead zones. Audio program Fritz Haber saved a billion people with synthetic fertilizer but also created chemical weapons (audio).

Nikolay Vavilov collected more seeds, tubers and fruits from around the world than any other person in history. Yet the plant explorer, who endeavored to end famine, starved to death in a gulag, and his colleagues starved in the Siege of Stalingrad protecting the seeds. Gary Paul Nabhan, an ethnobiologist, conservationist, farmer and writer, chronicled Vavilov's life in Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine. Nikolay Vavilov, the Indiana Jones of Botany Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine (audio interview) Gary Paul Nabhan reflects on What is the Relevance of Vavilov in the Year 2010?:Link. This seed ark carries on his work.

The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century by Peter Pringle audio interview.

How ‘Evil Geniuses’ Got Us Hooked on Avocados NPR audio.

White Bread: A Social History Of The Store-Bought Loaf summary, excerpt and author audio interview see also 40 page overview(pdf)

Food Ark, is about saving seeds in the Arctic to protect the precious genetic resource.

The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal by Mark Kurlansky audio interview

Jim Hightower on roots of agribiz. pdf

NAFTA effect on worker safety in Mexico. Overall effect (video) 12/13 20th anniversary report (which could have lessons for current TPP). NAFTA sparked indigenous Zapatista uprising in Mexico. See Labor.