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The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the 21st Century - Gregory E. Pence
Essays on the moral questions surrounding food production, modification, and consumption and, in particular, the global impact on ecosystems.
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
A history of fast food that delves into the ways in which the industry has impacted on popular culture and food production.
Soil and Survival - Joe Paddock, Nancy Paddock and Carol Bly
An analysis of the consequences of the loss of farmlands through soil erosion and diversion to other purposes, and a look at how farmland issues are linked to other pressing social concerns. Attempts to outline a practical model for preserving farmlands.
Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty - Mark Winne
This book exposes America’s dangerous dietary split: from patrons of food pantries, bodegas and convenience stores to the more comfortable classes who increasingly seek out organic and local products.
The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and environmental ethics - Paul B. Thompson
The Spirit of the Soil challenges environmentalists to think more deeply and creatively about agriculture. Thompson identifies world views which tackle agricultural ethics according to different philosophical priorities.
The Paradox of Plenty: Hunger in a Bountiful World - Edited by Douglas H. Boucher
Through its research, Food First has show there is more than enough food for every man, woman and child on the planet, but all too often the poor do not have access to that food.
The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans - Patricia Klindienst
Inspired by her own family’s immigrant history, master gardener Patricia Klindienst traveled the country gathering stories of urban, suburban and rural gardens created by people rarely presented in American gardening books: Native Americans, immigrants from across Asia and Europe, and ethnic people who were here longer before our national boundaries were drawn. The book offers a sustainable model of restorative ecology.
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health-affected - Marion Nestle
The new and revised edition looks at the undermining of dietary advice, food lobbyists, school corruption, dietary supplements and the invention of techno foods.
The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming has Endangered America’s Food Supply - Ken Midkiff
This book explains what you should know about how the quality of our food has been greatly compromised in the name of productivity and profit.
Another Turn of the Crank - Wendell Berry
In this popular collection of essays, Wendell Berry proposes, and earnestly hopes, that people will learn once more to care for their local communities.
Against the Grain: How Agriculture has Hijacked Civilization - Richard Manning
A history of agriculture from the domestication of plants and animals ten thousand years ago to today’s corporate megafarms. Manning portrays an enterprise that, from its inception, was designed more for creating wealth than for feeding people, in the form of contemporary agribusiness has helped build some of the most dysfunctional features of our political and social landscape.
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - Michael Pollan
What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? Something organic? Or perhaps something we hunt, gather, or grow ourselves?
The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
A look at thew ways people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship.
Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet - Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe
A journey to five continents to discover the way food impacts global communities, and includes 100 pages of recipes by ecological culinary pioneers like Alice Water, Mollie Katzen and Nora Pouillon.
Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasure in a Global Supermarket - Brian Halweil
This is a book about why eating local—securing your food from nearby farms and shops rather than distant agribusiness—is better for your health, for farmers and for the planet.
Together at the Table: Sustainability And Sustenance In The American Agrifood System (Rural Studies)
Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit and salad bars stocked with local foods. In a community garden in New York, low-income residents are producing organically grown fruits and vegetables for their own use and to sell at market. In Madison, Wisconsin, shoppers select their food from a bounty of choices at a vibrant farmers’ market. Together at the Table is about people throughout the United States who are building successful alternatives to the contemporary agrifood system and their prospects for the future.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life – Barbara Kingsolver
Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, this book (released May 2007) tells the story of how our family was changed by one year of deliberately eating food produced in the place where we live. Barbara wrote the central narrative; Steven’s sidebars dig deeper into various aspects of food-production science and industry; Camille’s brief essays offer a nineteen-year-old’s perspective on the local-food project, plus nutritional information, meal plans and recipes.
Journals:
- Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition