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  • Chickenizing Farms and Food

    How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers

    by Ellen K. Silbergeld ...
    A frightening look at the meat industry’s cost to public health, worker safety, and the future of medicine—as well as the potential for agricultural reform.Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the globe, often at the expense of human health. In Chickenizing Farms and Food, Ellen K. Silbergeld ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • The End of Overeating

    Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite

    by David A. Kessler M.D. ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The former commissioner of the FDA exposes how the food industry manufactured a nationwide health crisis and offers research-based solutions for taking back control of our diets.“Fascinating.”—The New York Times“Groundbreaking.”—USA Today“Disturbing, thought-provoking, and important.”—Anthony BourdainMost of us know what it feels like to f... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Fast Food Nation 25th Anniversary Edition

    The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

    by Eric Schlosser ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELELR"A fine piece of muckraking, alarming without being alarmist. . . . Schlosser makes it hard to go on eating fast food in blissful ignorance.” – New York Times“One of the most important books on the precarious nature of the modern American food system.” – The ObserverIn 2001, Fast Food Nation was published to critical acclaim and became an international bes... ... Read more

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  • Real Food/Fake Food

    Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do About It

    by Larry Olmsted ...
    “Olmsted makes you insanely hungry and steaming mad--a must-read for anyone who cares deeply about the safety of our food and the welfare of our planet.” —Steven Raichlen, author of the Barbecue! Bible series“The world is full of delicious, lovingly crafted foods that embody the terrain, weather, and culture of their origins. Unfortunately, it’s also full of brazen impostors. In this entertaining ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Stop

    How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement

    by Nick Saul, Andrea Curtis ...
    FINALIST 2014 – Heritage Toronto AwardIt began as a food bank. It turned into a movement.In 1998, when Nick Saul became executive director of The Stop, the little urban food bank was like thousands of other cramped, dreary, makeshift spaces, a last-hope refuge where desperate people could stave off hunger for one more day with a hamper full of canned salt, sugar and fat. The produce was wilted and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Food Confidential

    The Corporate Takeover of Food Security and the Family Farm—and What to Do About It

    by Nicole Faires ...
    When author and homesteader Nicole Faires decided to retrofit an old school bus and tour America’s small farms with her husband and two small children, she expected to learn a lot, be inspired, and have some fun. But what she found disturbed her. Mismanaged small farms; clueless urbanites setting up shop to get back to the land”; a mindless devotion to organic farming; and, ultimately, the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Meatonomics

    How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much―and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter (Men Birthday Gift, for Readers of Comfortably Unaware)

    by David Robinson Simon ...
    Stop Being Manipulated by the Animal Foods IndustryStop the meat industry from eating into your wallet. Few Americans are aware of the realities of the economic system that supports our country's supply of animal foods. Yet these forces affect us in ways we can hardly imagine. Though we only fork over a few dollars per pound of meat products at the grocery store, we end up paying much more than ... Read more

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  • Food

    The Key Concepts

    by Warren Belasco ...
    Series series The Key Concepts
    Food: The Key Concepts presents an exciting, coherent and interdisciplinary introduction to food studies for the beginning reader. Food Studies is an increasingly complex field, drawing on disciplines as diverse as Sociology, Anthropology and Cultural Studies at one end and Economics, Politics and Agricultural Science at the other.In order to clarify the issues, Food: The Key Concepts distills ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Coffee

    A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry

    Edited by Jonathan Morris, Shawn Steiman, Robert W. Thurston ...
    Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry offers a definitive guide to the many rich dimensions of the bean and the beverage around the world. Leading experts from business and academia consider coffee’s history, global spread, cultivation, preparation, marketing, and the environmental and social issues surrounding it today. They discuss, for example, the impact of ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Puer Tea

    Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic

    by Jinghong Zhang, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the “Six Great Tea Mountains” of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called Tea Horse Road and presented as tribute to the emperor in Beijing. In the 1990s, as the tea’s noble lineage and unique process of aging and fermentation were rediscovered, it achieved cult status both ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Making Supper Safe

    One Man's Quest to Learn the Truth about Food Safety

    by Ben Hewitt ...
    Food recalls have become so ubiquitous we hardly even notice them. The massive peanut salmonella contamination of 2008–2009 alone killed nine and sickened an estimated 22,500 people; only a few weeks later, contaminated frozen cookie dough sent 35 people to the hospital. These tragic, inexcusable events to which no one is immune are but a symptom of a broader food system malaise.In Making Supper ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Ethical Carnivore

    My Year Killing to Eat

    by Louise Gray ...
    WINNER OF TWO 2017 GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARDS: BEST FOOD BOOK AWARD AND THE CAMPAIGNING AND INVESTIGATIVE FOOD WORK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 FORTNUM & MASON FOOD BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC RADIO 4 FOOD PROGRAMME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016We should all know exactly where our meat comes from. But what if you took this modern-day maxim to its logic... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD