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Feed the People!

Why Industrial Food Is Good and How to Make It Even Better

by Jan Dutkiewicz, Gabriel N. Rosenberg ...

**Why Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other slow-food-loving locavores are wrong about food in America—and why Waffle House can save us all.“This book is sustenance for your mind as it imagines more democratic and delightful ways we can all fill our stomachs.” —Astra Taylor, author of Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone**The food industry is a major driver of climate ... Read more

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**Why Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other slow-food-loving locavores are wrong about food in America—and why Waffle House can save us all.“This book is sustenance for your mind as it imagines more democratic and delightful ways we can all fill our stomachs.” —Astra Taylor, author of Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone**The food industry is a major driver of climate
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Planet Ocean

A Conversation with Paul Watson

by Paul Watson ...

Series Book 3 - Social Science Research Council
Veteranenvironmental activist and Whale Wars hostPaul Watson offers in this interview a provocative and revolutionary view ofthe state of an environment in crisis. The planet may survive our environmentaldestruction, he argues, but humans may not. Focused on protecting oceans,preventing the loss of biodiversity, and promoting individual action, Watson’ssingular call to arms challenges the typical ... Read more

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Veteranenvironmental activist and Whale Wars hostPaul Watson offers in this interview a provocative and revolutionary view ofthe state of an environment in crisis. The planet may survive our environmentaldestruction, he argues, but humans may not. Focused on protecting oceans,preventing the loss of biodiversity, and promoting individual action, Watson’ssingular call to arms challenges the typical
... Read more
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Feed the People!

Why Industrial Food Is Good and How to Make It Even Better

by Jan Dutkiewicz, Gabriel N. Rosenberg ...

Narrated by Christopher Douyard ...

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Why Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other slow-food-loving locavores are wrong about food in America—and why Waffle House can save us allThe food industry is a major driver of climate change, pollution, obesity, animal suffering, and workplace exploitation. Many food writers blame the industrial food system and tell individual eaters to fix these problems by buying local, artisanal food from ... Read more

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Why Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other slow-food-loving locavores are wrong about food in America—and why Waffle House can save us allThe food industry is a major driver of climate change, pollution, obesity, animal suffering, and workplace exploitation. Many food writers blame the industrial food system and tell individual eaters to fix these problems by buying local, artisanal food from
... Read more

Animal, Vegetable, Junk

A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book

by Mark Bittman ...

"Epic and engrossing." —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how history has been shaped by humanity’s appetite for food, farmland, and the money behind it all—and how a better future is within reach.The story of humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influence—of arrowheads ... Read more

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"Epic and engrossing." —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how history has been shaped by humanity’s appetite for food, farmland, and the money behind it all—and how a better future is within reach.The story of humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influence—of arrowheads
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Food Fix

How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time

by Dr. Mark Hyman, MD ...

Series Book 9 - The Dr. Mark Hyman Library
An indispensable guide to food, our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD."Read this book if you're ready to change the world." —Tim Ryan, US RepresentativeWhat we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, ... Read more

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An indispensable guide to food, our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD."Read this book if you're ready to change the world." —Tim Ryan, US RepresentativeWhat we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet,
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Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide

How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It

Edited by Karl Weber, Participant ...

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 who has processed ... Read more

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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 who has processed
... Read more
Cheap

The High Cost of Discount Culture

by Ellen Ruppel Shell ...

A myth-shattering investigation of the true cost of America's passion for finding a better bargainFrom the shuttered factories of the Rust Belt to the strip malls of the Sun Belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little- examined obsession with bargains is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force ... Read more

$4.99 USD

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A myth-shattering investigation of the true cost of America's passion for finding a better bargainFrom the shuttered factories of the Rust Belt to the strip malls of the Sun Belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little- examined obsession with bargains is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force
... Read more

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Foodopoly

The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

by Wenonah Hauter ...

"A meticulously researched tour de force" on politics, big agriculture, and the need to go beyond farmers' markets to find fixes ( Publishers Weekly).Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet, as a leading healthy-food advocate, Hauter believes that the local food movement ... Read more

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"A meticulously researched tour de force" on politics, big agriculture, and the need to go beyond farmers' markets to find fixes ( Publishers Weekly).Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet, as a leading healthy-food advocate, Hauter believes that the local food movement
... Read more

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The Next Supper

The End of Restaurants as We Knew Them, and What Comes After

by Corey Mintz ...

A searing expose of the restaurant industry, and a path to a better, safer, happier meal.In the years before the pandemic, the restaurant business was booming. Americans spent more than half of their annual food budgets dining out. In a generation, chefs had gone from behind-the-scenes laborers to TV stars. The arrival of Uber Eats, DoorDash, and other meal delivery apps was overtaking home ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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A searing expose of the restaurant industry, and a path to a better, safer, happier meal.In the years before the pandemic, the restaurant business was booming. Americans spent more than half of their annual food budgets dining out. In a generation, chefs had gone from behind-the-scenes laborers to TV stars. The arrival of Uber Eats, DoorDash, and other meal delivery apps was overtaking home
... Read more

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We Are What We Eat

A Slow Food Manifesto

by Alice Waters ...

From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eatsIn We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture, the philosophy at the core of her life’s work. When Waters first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of ... Read more

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From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eatsIn We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture, the philosophy at the core of her life’s work. When Waters first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of
... Read more

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The Locavore's Dilemma

In Praise of the 10,000-mile Diet

by Pierre Desrochers, Hiroko Shimizu ...

A new generation of food activists has come to believe that "sustainable farming" and "eating local" are the way to solve a host of perceived problems with our modern food supply system. By combining healthy eating and a high standard of environmental stewardship, these locavores think, we can also deliver important economic benefits and increase food security within local economies.But after a ... Read more

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A new generation of food activists has come to believe that "sustainable farming" and "eating local" are the way to solve a host of perceived problems with our modern food supply system. By combining healthy eating and a high standard of environmental stewardship, these locavores think, we can also deliver important economic benefits and increase food security within local economies.But after a
... Read more
The End Of Food

by Paul Roberts ...

Paul Roberts, the best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing.In this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food and shows how our system of making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible ... Read more

$9.99 USD

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Paul Roberts, the best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing.In this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food and shows how our system of making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible
... Read more

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