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Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
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Include books by the same authorJust Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
James McWilliams · 273 pages
We suffer today from food anxiety, bombarded as we are with confusing messages about how to eat an ethical diet. Should we eat locally? Is organic really better for the environment? Can genetically modified foods be good for you? JUST FOOD does for fresh food what Fast Food Nation (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) did for fast food, challenging conventional views, and cutting through layers of myth and mis
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver · 384 pages
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat."As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begi
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan · 450 pages
What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't—which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer · 341 pages
After spending much of his life shifting between various omnivore and herbivore eating habits, the author presents a thought provoking look at why and how humans choose their diets. Delivering the pros and cons of eating meat, he invites readers on an insightful exploration into the many facets of food. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir, and his own detective work,
Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment
David Kirby · 510 pages
Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. This book is about our American food system gone terribly wrong--and the people who are fi
Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair
Carlo Petrini · 262 pages
American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food
Jonathan Bloom · 372 pages
American Wasteland chronicles how we waste food from farm to fork and examines the impact of our squandering. With an upbeat tone, the book offers suggestions on how we -- as a nation and as individuals -- can trim our waste. A word of warning: It's a book that forces you to reconsider your approach to food. Because once you're looking for food waste, it's hard to miss. - Publisher.
Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat
Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer · 223 pages
Former cattle rancher Howard Lyman "blasts through the propaganda of the beef and dairy industries ... and exposes an animal-based diet as the primary cause of cancer, heart disease, and obesity in this country."--Jacket.
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott · 448 pages
Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world - from the UK, Europe and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. It is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future.--COVER.
The 100-Mile Diet : A Year Of Local Eating
Alisa Smith, J.B. MacKinnon · 272 pages
Happy Snacking, Don't Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager (A Cookbook)
Alexis Nikole Nelson · 272 pages
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
Dan Barber · 486 pages
"Renowned chef Dan Barber introduces a new kind of cuisine that represents the future of American dining in THE THIRD PLATE. Barber explores the evolution of American food from the "first plate," or industrially-produced, meat-heavy dishes, to the "second plate" of grass-fed meat and organic greens, and says that both of these approaches are ultimately neither sustainable nor healthy. Instead, Bar
Encounters with the Archdruid
John McPhee · 245 pages
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard a
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
Vandana Shiva · 205 pages
"A leading voice in struggles for global justice, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental activist and physicist. In Earth Democracy, Shiva updates the struggles she helped bring to international attention--against genetic food engineering, cultural theft, and natural resource privatization--uncovering their link to the rising tide of fundamentalism, violence against women, and planetary d
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements
Sandor Ellix Katz · 389 pages
Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
Karl Weber · 321 pages
From the Publisher: Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "more than a terrific movie-it's an important movie." Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and
The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living
Mark Bittman · 645 pages
The "Minimalist" columnist and author of How to Cook Everything outlines an eating plan that is comprised of environmentally responsible choices, in a guide that shares insight into the risks associated with livestock production.
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
Michael Grunwald · 472 pages
The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World
John Robbins · 451 pages
Explores the dangers behind many foods, describes the benefits of healthy alternatives, and explains how people can extend their lives, increase their vibrancy and vitality, and take a stand for a more compassionate and sustainable world by making better food choices.
The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure
Joseph C. Jenkins · 255 pages
A Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations
Clive Ponting · 432 pages
An examination of human history in terms of the environment explores how nature has affected the growth of human civilization and how human civilization has affected nature, from the earliest hunter-gatherer groups to the present.--
Design With Nature
Ian L. McHarg · 197 pages
This is a new paperback version of a text, originally published in 1969, that outlined the principles of urban design from an environmental perspective. It should benefit architects, urban and regional planners, and environmentalists.