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
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 food system, what they find raises deeply disturbing and perplexing 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
Articles in category "Food"
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