Food Inc.: How industrial food is making us sicker, fatter and poorer and what you can do about it (a participant guide.)
“Food, Inc. does for the supermarket what Jaws did for the beach.” This companion book to the movie provides the facts behind the problems – food poisoning, pollution, labor abuse, rampant hunger – and shows what you can do to make a difference. Contributors include Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle, Joel Salatin, and Eric Schlosser among many other experts featured in the film.
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Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of 4 Meals
This book by Michael Pollan is a fascinating journey up and down the food chain, and one that might change the way you read the label on a frozen dinner, dig into a steak, or decide whether to buy organic eggs. You’ll certainly never look at a Chicken McNugget the same way again.
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.
On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. But the industry’s drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America’s diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. “Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior,” author Eric Schlosser writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it “your way” really worth it?
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French Women Don’t Get Fat
Stylish, convincing, wise, funny—and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live. Unlocking the simple secrets of the “French Paradox”—how the French enjoy food while staying slim and healthy—Mireille Guiliano gives a charming, empowering take on health and eating for our times.
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Eating Animals
Ellen DeGeneres said “One of the most important books I’ve ever read.” The latest from novelist Jonathan Safran Foer is a brilliant memoir-investigation, boasting an account of one man-child’s decade-long struggle with vegetarianism. On the eve of becoming a father, Foer takes all the arguments for and against vegetarianism to decide how to feed his coming baby, and investigates everything from the intelligence level of our most popular meat providers-cattle, pigs, and poultry-to the specious self-justifications (his own included) for eating some meat products and not others. Foer brings extraordinary artistry, clarity, valor, and compassion to this staggering investigation into the ethics, horrors, and dangers of factory farming.
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