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America's food : what you don't know about what you eat
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America's food : what you don't know about what you eat

Author: Harvey Blatt
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Most of us have a fairly abstract understanding of what happens on a farm. In America's Food, Harvey Blatt gives us the specifics." "After taking us on a tour of the American food system-not only the basic food groups but soil, grain farming, organic food, genetically modified food, food processing, and diet-Blatt reminds us that we aren't powerless. Once we know the facts about food in America, we can change things  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Harvey Blatt
ISBN: 9780262026529 026202652X 0262515954 9780262515955
OCLC Number: 216938344
Description: ix, 336 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents: Old Mcdonald has no farm: he dies, she dies, sold --
Soil character and plant growth: nature's magic --
Grain farming: the basic crop --
Organic food: as nature intended --
Genetically modified food: food fights among adults --
Chicken, eggs, turkey, and duck: fowl weather --
Cattle, milk, swine, and sheep: raising cholesterol --
Seafood: the killing fields --
Fruits and vegetables: plants to cherish --
Food processing: what is this stuff we're eating --
Eating poorly and too much: poor health and body bloat.
Other Titles: What you don't know about what you eat
Responsibility: Harvey Blatt.

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The complete story of what we don't know, and what we should know, about American food production and its effect on health and the environment.  Read more...
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"An excellent primer on the food we eat today." --Brian Halweil, Worldwatch Institute "If you suspect something may be fundamentally wrong with the food you have been eating, you are right. Harvey Read more...

 
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