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Publisher
Arts Alliance America
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Documents the trend of 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. Explores organic and sustainable agriculture as alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Formaldehyde, borax, salicylic acid. Today, these chemicals are used in embalming fluids, cleaning supplies, and acne medications. But in 1900, they were routinely added to food that Americans ate from cans and jars. Often products weren't safe because unregulated, unethical companies added these and other chemicals to trick consumers into buying spoiled food or harmful medicines. Chemist Harvey Washington Wiley recognized these dangers and began...
4) Hands off my food!: how government and industry have corrupted our food and easy ways to fight back
Author
Publisher
Watchdog Works
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Americans have stopped being watchdogs over their own food supply. Roughly 100 years ago, with the birth of the FDA, we handed that responsibility over to the government and the food industry. They, in turn, have fundamentally transformed our food supply and it's making us sick, including our children. Not only are we losing our health to food related illnesses like cancer and heart disease, we are losing our freedom. Did you know that government...
5) Biting the hands that feed us: how fewer, smarter laws would make our food system more sustainable
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Food waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks--these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet, today in the United States, laws exist at all levels of government that actually make these problems worse. Baylen Linnekin argues that, too often, government rules handcuff America's most sustainable farmers, producers, sellers, and consumers, while rewarding those whose practices are anything...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The first and definitive history of the use of food in American law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era. In 1789, to subjugate Indigenous tribes, George Washington ordered his troops to 'ruin their crops on the ground and prevent them planting more.' Destroying the sources of food is just one way that the United States has used nourishment as a political tool. To prevent enslaved people...
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