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- Food, Inc. [videorecording] / by Kenner, Robert,1950-prodrtaus; Pearlstein, Elise.proaus; Roberts, Kim.ausflm; Schlosser, Eric.ive; Pollan, Michael.ive; Hirshberg, Gary.ive; Salatin, Joel.ive; Adler, Mark.cmp; Participant Media.; River Road Entertainment (Firm); Perfect Meal, LLC (Firm); Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm); Magnolia Pictures (Firm); American Documentary, Inc.;
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.78:1); Dolby digital 5.1 or Dolby digital 2.0 audio.Interviewees include Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, Gary Hirshberg, Joel Salatin.Director of photography, Richard Pearce ; editor, Kim Roberts ; music, Mark Adler.MPAA rating: PG; for some thematic material and disturbing images.Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.Special feature: deleted scenes; celebrity public service announcements; resources; "You are what you eat: food with integrity" [segment originally broadcast on ABC News Nightline on June 16th, 2009 ; ca. 7 min.) ; "The amazing food detective: Snacktown smackdown" (by Kaiser Permanente ; animated children's segment with scenes from interactive game Snacktown Smackdown ; ca. 3 min.) ; information on the companion book of the same title ; original theatrical trailer ; links to related organizations.
- Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films; Food industry and trade; Food industry and trade; Cereal products industry; Dairy products industry; Meat industry and trade; Food handling; Food adulteration and inspection; Product recall; Product safety; Agricultural industries; Agricultural processing; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Foodborne diseases; Produce trade; Food prices;
- © 2009., Magnolia Home Entertainment,
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- Tomatoland : how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit / by Estabrook, Barry.;
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-213) and index.Investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.
- Subjects: Tomatoes; Tomatoes.; Agriculture; Agricultural ecology.;
- © ©2012., Andrews McMeel Publishing,
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- Japanese guaranteed [sound recording]. by Berlitz Publishing Company.;
- CD 1. Pronunciation, introductions, greetings, family, saying where you live -- CD 2. Occupations, hobbies, counting, time, dates, days of the week -- CD 3. Shopping, prices, payment, hotel and restaurant reservations, ordering food -- CD 4. Buying train tickets, asking directions, schedules, accepting or declining invitations.
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Japanese language; Japanese language; Japanese language;
- © p2008., Berlitz,
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- Betting on famine : why the world still goes hungry / by Ziegler, Jean.;
- Includes bibliographical references.Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- Massacre -- The geography of hunger -- Invisible hunger -- Protracted crises -- Postscript 1: The gaza ghetto -- Postscript 2: Refugees from the North Korean famine -- The children of Crateus -- God is not a farmer -- "No one goes hungry in Switzerland" -- The tragedy of Noma -- The awakening of conscience -- Famine and fatalism : Malthus and natural selection -- Josue de Castro, phase one -- Hitler's "hunger plan" -- A light in the darkness : the United Nations -- Josue de Castro, phase two : A very heavy coffin -- Enemies of the right to food -- The crusaders of neoliberalism -- The horsemen of the apocalypse -- When free trade kills -- Savonarola on Lake Geneva -- The collapse of the WFP and the FAO's impotence -- A billionaire's fear -- Victory of the predators -- "Natural" selection redux -- Jalil Jilani and her children -- The defeat of Jacques Diouf -- Postscript: The murder of Iraq's children -- The vultures of "green gold" -- A great lie -- Barack Obama's obsession -- The curse of sugarcane -- Postscript: Hell in Gujarat -- Criminal recolonization -- The speculators -- The "tiger sharks" -- Geneva, world capital of agri-food speculators -- Land grabs and the resistance of the damned -- The complicity of the western states -- Epilogue -- Notes.World hunger was very nearly eradicated in our lifetimes--but in the past five years widespread starvation has suddenly reappeared, and chronic hunger is a major issue on every continent. Ziegler lays out in clear and accessible terms the complex global causes of the new hunger crisis. He focuses on how the new sustainable revolution in energy production has diverted millions of acres of corn, soy, wheat, and other grain crops from food to fuel. The result: with declining food reserves, prices are at record highs and a new global commodities market in ethanol and other biofuels gobbles up arable lands.
- Subjects: Food relief; Hunger; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.;
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- Fat, stressed, and sick : MSG, processed food, and America's health crisis / by Reid, Katherine,author.; Price, Barbara(Science writer and editor),author.;
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-277) and index.The crisis is real -- Can't eat just one -- Safety concerns and business interests collide -- Overexcited: glutamate in the body - The microbiome: meet the rest of your body -- The slow-growing fire: inflammation and diet -- Glutamate and disease: Addiction ; Alzheimer's disease ; Anxiety ; Attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (ADHD) ; Autism ; Cancer ; Depression ; Diabetes, obesity ; and metabolic syndrome ; Multiple sclerosis ; Parkinson's disease (Parkinsonism) ; Schizophrenia ; Seizures/epilepsy ; Other neurodegenerative disorders -- Roadmap to health: the REID food lifestyle -- Do the math: hidden MSG from protein in processed food -- The perfect plate: recipes, ingredients, and meal plans.Reid and Price make the case that processed food compromises health not just because of added sugar, salt, and fat, but also because these foods contain significant amounts of glutamate--aka MSG. MSG makes food addicting and most of the MSG in processed food is created during food manufacturing. As the authors show, food processing of protein alone adds 10 grams or more a day of MSG to the average American diet. The book details the research linking dietary glutamate to a suite of inflammatory diseases: obesity, diabetes, autism, addiction, depression, and cancer, to name a few. Understanding the role of MSG in disease became the quest of author and biochemist Katherine Reid when she learned that her young daughter's autism symptoms were associated with inflammation of the brain. Reid made the connection between inflammation and glutamate in the diet--a connection amply supported by other studies. Reid's discovery that what one ate mattered was the start of a program of food-based solutions to chronic inflammatory illnesses, through which now, a decade later, she has helped thousands of people. The idea that large amounts glutamate in the diet jeopardizes health is supported by decades of research, despite efforts by the glutamate industry to discredit the scientific evidence that MSG poses a risk. Some would have you believe the science is settled. It is not. This book explains the science behind why we crave the MSG in processed food, why it is hidden, how it is making us sick, and what we can do about it. --Adapted from publisher's description.
- Subjects: Monosodium glutamate; Processed foods; Inflammation;
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- Pandora's lunchbox : how processed food took over the American meal / by Warner, Melanie.;
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-257) and index.From breakfast cereal to frozen pizza to nutrition bars, processed foods are a fundamental part of our diet, accounting for 65% of our nation's yearly calories. Over the past century, technology has transformed the American meal into a chemical-laden smorgasbord of manipulated food products that bear little resemblance to what our grandparents ate. Despite the growing presence of farmers' markets and organic offerings, food additives and chemical preservatives are nearly impossible to avoid, and even the most ostensibly healthy foods contain multisyllabic ingredients with nearly untraceable origins. The far-reaching implications of the industrialization of the food supply that privileges cheap, plentiful, and fast food have been well documented. They are dire. But how did we ever reach the point where 'pink slime' is an acceptable food product? Is anybody regulating what makes it into our food? What, after all, is actually safe to eat? Here the author, a former York Times health columnist combines deep investigatory reporting, culinary history, and cultural analysis, to find out how we got here and what it is we are really eating. This book blows the lid off the largely undocumented world of processed foods and food manipulation. From the vitamin "enrichments" to our fortified cereals and bread, to the soy mixtures that bolster chicken (and often outweigh the actual chicken included), the author lays bare the dubious nutritional value and misleading labels of chemically-treated foods, as well as the potential price we, and our children, may pay. -- Provided by publisher.Weird science -- The crusading chemist -- The quest for eternal cheese -- Extruded and gun puffed -- Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again -- Better living through chemistry -- The joy of soy -- Extended meat -- Why chicken needs chicken flavor -- Healthy processed foods -- Sit at home and chew.
- Subjects: Food industry and trade; Processed foods; Food additives;
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- What to eat / by Nestle, Marion.;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-587) and index.Supermarket : prime real estate -- PRODUCE SECTION. Fruits and vegetables : the price of fresh -- Organics : hype or hope -- Produce : safe at any price -- Genetically modified, irradiated, and politicized -- DAIRY SECTION. Milk and more milk -- Milk : subject to debate -- Dairy foods : the raw and the cooked -- Yogurt : health food or dessert -- DAIRY SUBSTITUTES. Margarine : accept no substitutes -- Margarine : you CAN believe it's not butter -- Soy milk : panacea, or just another food -- MEAT SECTION. Range of meaty issues -- Meat : questions of safety -- Meat : organic vs. "natural" -- FISH COUNTER. Fish : dilemmas and quandaries -- Fish : the methylmercury dilemma -- Fish-farming dilemma -- Fish-labeling quandaries -- More seafood dilemmas : safety and sustainability -- CENTER AISLES : COOL AND FROZEN. Eggs : the "incredible" edibles -- Eggs and the salmonella problem -- Frozen foods : decoding ingredient lists -- Digression into calories and diets -- Frozen foods : reading nutrition facts -- CENTER AISLES : PROCESSED. Processed foods : wheat flour and the glycemic index -- Sugar(s) -- Cereals : sweet and supposedly healthy -- Packaged foods : health endorsements -- Snack foods : sweet, salty, and caloric -- Foods just for kids -- Oils : fat and more fat -- BEVERAGE AISLES. Water, water everywhere : bottled and not -- "Healthy" drinks : sugared and artificially sweetened -- Teas and coffees : caffeine to eco-labels -- SPECIAL SECTIONS. Infant formula and baby food -- Supplements and health food -- Bread : the bakery -- Prepared foods : salads and more -- Taking action -- Food measures : conversion factors -- Terms used to describe fats and oils in foods.From publisher description: With What to Eat, this renowned nutritionist takes us on a guided tour of the supermarket, explaining the issues with verve and wit as well as a scientist's expertise and a food lover's experience. Today's supermarket is ground zero for the food industry, a place where the giants of agribusiness compete for sales with profits, not nutrition or health, in mind. Nestle walks us through the supermarket, section by section: produce, dairy, meat, fish, packaged foods, breads, juices, bottled waters, and more. Along the way, she untangles the issues, decodes the labels, clarifies the health claims, and debunks the sales hype. She tells us how to make sensible choices based on freshness, taste, nutrition, health, effects on the environment, and, of course, price. With Nestle as our guide, we learn what it takes to make wise food choices and are inspired to act with confidence on that knowledge. What to Eat is the guide to healthy eating today: comprehensive, provocative, revealing, rich in common sense, informative, and a pleasure to read.
- Subjects: Nutrition; Diet; Health; Food; Voeding.;
- © 2007, c2006., North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
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- Regenesis : [electronic resource] : Feeding the world without devouring the planet. by Monbiot, George.; Monbiot, George.;
- Narrator: George Monbiot.Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism | A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller | Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation “George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today.” —Greta Thunberg For the first time in millennia, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world.   Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction—and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticize urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have plowed, fenced, and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry and the price of food is rising faster than ever.   Now the food system itself is beginning to falter. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, we can resolve the biggest of our dilemmas and feed the world without devouring the planet.   Regenesis is a breathtaking vision of a new future for food and for humanity. Drawing on astonishing advances in soil ecology, Monbiot reveals how our changing understanding of the world beneath our feet could allow us to grow more food with less farming. He meets the people who are unlocking these methods, from the fruit and vegetable grower revolutionizing our understanding of fertility; through breeders of perennial grains, liberating the land from plows and poisons; to the scientists pioneering new ways to grow protein and fat. Together, they show how the tiniest life forms could help us make peace with the planet, restore its living systems, and replace the age of extinction with an age of regenesis.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 267049 KB).
- Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; Science.; Sociology.; Technology.;
- © 2022., Penguin Audio,
- On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=6508120 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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- The way we eat now : how the food revolution has transformed our lives, our bodies, and our world / by Wilson, Bee,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-326) and index."In just two generations, the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating-- from bubble tea to quinoa, Soylent to meal kits. Paradoxically, our diets are getting healthier and less healthy at the same time. For some, there has never been a happier food era than today: a time of unusual herbs, farmers' markets, and internet recipe swaps. Yet modern food also kills-- diabetes and heart disease are on the rise everywhere on earth. This is a book about the good, the terrible, and the avocado toast. A riveting exploration of the hidden forces behind what we eat, "The way we eat now" explains how this food revolution has transformed our bodies, our social lives, and the world we live in."--Introduction: The gatherers and the hunted -- 1. The food transition -- And they never went hungry again -- Where the balance falls -- Stage four -- The global standard diet -- The mythical banana kingdom of Iceland -- A short history of eating too much -- Bending the curve -- What we ate next -- 2. Mismatch -- The thin-fat baby -- The thirst conundrum -- The stigmatized majority -- 3. Edible economics -- A hidden sea of oil -- Never tasted before -- Price of bread -- Engel's law -- Give us this day our daily meat -- Value for money -- 4. Out of time -- The death of the lunch hour -- Like a rest in music -- Wasting time or wasting food -- The rhythm of modern life -- The woman who never snacks -- Snack foods for the world -- "He's not really big on food" -- The healthy snack -- Eating alone together -- 5. The changeable eater -- What's salsa? -- New but not really -- Now comes quinoa -- Fads and frauds -- 6. Dinner without duty -- The democratic restaurant -- Calories and convenience -- Dinner on a bike -- Self-service -- The inequalities of choice -- 7. Eating by the rules -- Bleeding beetroot -- The healthiest of all possible diets -- The enigma of the protein bar -- Beyond food -- The opposite of a cucumber -- 8. The return to cooking -- The dabbler cook -- Cooking by numbers -- The land of cooks -- New kitchen rules -- 9. Crossing the bridge -- The sweet green grass -- Killing the cartoon characters -- "If I had maths results like this I'd be out of a job" -- Celebrate with olives -- The joy of greens -- Recipe for a seed -- Epilogue: New food on old plates.
- Subjects: Gastronomy.; Food habits.; Food.; Diet.;
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- A big fat crisis : the hidden forces behind the obesity epidemic - and how we can end it / by Cohen, Deborah(Deborah Ann);
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index." In the hot days of the summer of 1972, the New York City Health Department investigated an unusually high incidence of deaths among toddlers who fell out of tenement windows. Initially mothers and caregivers were blamed for not being alert, not properly supervising children, or simply neglecting naturally curious toddlers and adventurous young children who leaned out of apartment windows, or crawled onto fire escape stairwells to try and cool off. After an investigation, the health department launched a campaign, "Children Can't Fly" and offered free window guards to families in tenement buildings. The next summer, there were no falls from buildings that had the new window guards. The story of "Children Can't Fly" is an apt analogy for the problem and the solution to the obesity epidemic. Children are born curious and may wander to an open window even if (or because) we tell them to stay away. All of us were born with the capacity and inclination to eat more than we need. In a world where there is too much food, we currently have no constraints that limit our natural tendencies to automatically eat what is readily available. Dr. Cohen has created a major new work of nonfiction that will transform the national conversation surrounding the weight crisis in this country and throughout the world. Based on her own research at the RAND corporation, as well as the latest insights from behavioral economics, psychology, cognitive science, and the social sciences, A Big Fat Crisis reveals the surprising forces behind the obesity epidemic and how we, as a nation, can overcome it. Her conclusions contradict conventional wisdom and widely held expert opinion, and go against our own intuitive beliefs about the way we eat. They represent, in short, a paradigm-shift in how we approach the problem of obesity-and the solution. A Big Fat Crisis argues that the obesity epidemic is the product of two forces: (1) Immutable aspects of human nature, namely the fundamental limits of self-control, the lazy decision-making of the brain's non-cognitive system, and the automatic and unconscious way that we are hard-wired to eat; and (2) A completely transformed food environment: all of the food-related elements of our surroundings, including food stores and restaurants, prices, portion sizes, the types of food available to us, and food marketing and advertising. A Big Fat Crisis offers concrete solutions, arguing that the most important and modifiable steps in the chain of events that leads to obesity are at the point of purchase and the point of consumption. Like cholera and typhoid in the 19th century, obesity is a public health crisis. Ending it requires solutions that transcend individual behavior. Change begins with a fresh perspective and a clearer vision of what we need to do. We can tackle the obesity epidemic. We just can't do it alone"--"Dr. Cohen has created a work of nonfiction that will transform the national conversation surrounding the weight crisis in this country and throughout the world. Based on her own research at the RAND corporation, as well as the latest insights from behavioral economics, psychology, cognitive science, and the social sciences, A Big Fat Crisis reveals the surprising forces behind the obesity epidemic and how we, as a nation, can overcome it. Her conclusions contradict conventional wisdom and widely held expert opinion, and go against our own intuitive beliefs about the way we eat. They represent, in short, a paradigm-shift in how we approach the problem of obesity--and the solution. A Big Fat Crisis offers concrete solutions, arguing that the most important and modifiable steps in the chain of events that leads to obesity are at the point of purchase and the point of consumption. Like cholera and typhoid in the 19th century, obesity is a public health crisis. Ending it requires solutions that transcend individual behavior. Change begins with a fresh perspective and a clearer vision of what we need to do."--Human nature and food : It's not your fault ; The limits of self-control ; The overwhelmed brain ; Eating is automatic -- The food environment : Abundant and cheap ; A food desert? Try a swamp ; Marketing obesity -- An alternate vision : A plea for change: we are all in this together ; A safer food environment ; The supermarket of the future ; Fit and fat: what about physical activity? ; In the meantime: what individuals can do ; Conclusion -- Healthier meal guidelines for adults and children.
- Subjects: Obesity; Obesity; Obesity; Overweight persons; Public health; Obesity; Health Policy;
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