Good Food is Everybody's Business
Food Matters explores the links among global warming and other environmental challenges, obesity and the so-called lifestyle diseases, and the overproduction and over consumption of meat, simple carbohydrates, and junk food.
Mark Bittman, a well-known food writer, New York Times columnist, and author of Food Matters, has published his Food Manifesto for the Future, which would make “growing preparing and consuming food healthier, saner, more productive, less damaging, and more enduring.”
Up 14.2% in the last year, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) serves about 1 in 7 Americans, half of whom are children. Overall, the report shows twenty states had rates that were significantly higher than the national rate.
“THE ORGANIC OPPORTUNITY/Local Organic Food as Economic Development in Woodbury County, Iowa” tells the story of the first county in the US to promote local organic agriculture as economic development.
The two Senators from Alaska – Mark Begich (D) and Lisa Murkowski (R) have reintroduced a bill to ban genetically engineered salmon. The Food and Drug Administration is likely to approve the first genetically engineered food animal for human consumption.
Dinner at the New Gene Café expertly lays out the battle lines of the impending collision between a powerful but unproved technology and a gathering resistance from people worried about the safety of genetic change.
If you want to explore the story behind the controversy over “Frankenstein Foods” – genetically engineered crops like corn and soybeans – this is the book for you. It’s a story, rather than an argument on behalf of one side or the other. That story begins in the scientific breakthroughs of the early 1980s and the decision by one midwestern chemical company, Monsanto, to dive headfirst into biotechnology.
The explosive exposé Seeds of Deception reveals how industry manipulation and political collusion-not sound science-allow dangerous genetically engineered food into your daily diet. Company research is rigged, alarming evidence of health dangers is covered up, and intense political pressure applied.
