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1) Vegucated
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Vegucated is a feature-length documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. Lured with true tales of weight lost and health regained, they begin to uncover hidden sides of animal agriculture and soon start to wonder whether solutions offered in films like Food, Inc. go far enough. Before long, they find themselves risking everything to expose an industry they supported just weeks...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Bridges the gap between global farmers and fishermen and American consumers America now imports twice as much food as it did a decade ago. What does this increased reliance on imported food mean for the people around the globe who produce our food? Kelsey Timmerman set out on a global quest to meet the farmers and fisherman who grow and catch our food, and also worked alongside them: loading lobster boats in Nicaragua, splitting cocoa beans with...
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The food system is broken, but there is a revolution underway to fix it. Bite Back presents an urgent call and vision for disrupting corporate power in the food system, a vision shared with countless organizers and advocates worldwide. In this provocative and inspiring new book, editors Saru Jayaraman and Kathryn De Master bring together leading experts and activists who are challenging corporate power by addressing injustices in our food system,...
6) Food fix: how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet-- one bite at a time
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Describes the dysfunctions in the current food system, from chemical runoff to inhumane treatment of animals, and presents new principles and concrete steps to restructure how food is grown, packaged, delivered, marketed, and sold.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A bold, science-based corrective to the groundswell of misinformation about food and how it's produced, examining in detail local and organic food, food companies, nutrition labeling, ethical treatment of animals, environmental impacts, and every other aspect from farm to table. Consumers want to know more about their food--including the farm it came from, the chemicals used, the nutrition value, how the animals were treated, and costs to the environment....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that processed food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? Motivated by these questions, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss began searching for answers, to find the true peril in our food. In Hooked, Moss explores the science of addiction and uncovers what the scientific...
15) Moveable feasts: from ancient Rome to the 21st century, the incredible journeys of the food we eat
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
16) Clean protein: the revolution that will reshape your body, boost your energy--and save our planet
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
17) Fed up
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Katie Couric, the film blows the lid off everything that was known about food and exercise, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public. Exposing the hidden truths contributing to one of the largest health epidemics in history, it follows a group of families battling to lead healthier lives and reveals why the conventional wisdom of 'exercise and eat right'...
20) American wasteland: how America throws away nearly half of its food (and what we can do about it)
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Examines food waste in the United States, what it says about Americans, the economic and environmental impacts of food waste, and how to lessen what is wasted.
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