Category:Food
This category relates to food production and consumption
Contents
Websites
Environmental Defense Fund research on food and farm policies.
Articles
A personal essay about being a family farmer
Books
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.
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.
Fastfood Nation by Eric Schlosser S&E Stacks TX945.3 .S2968 2001 Google books
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
Videos
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 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.
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 or organic agriculture
The Meatrix Brilliant and funny animation
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.
See Tucker in course reader
Meat
The Meatrix, clever animated video
Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture J Rifkin 1993
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (see also reader) provides information on the meat industry and chemicals in the food.
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.
Articles in category "Food"
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