Author: Linda Staniford Publisher: Heinemann ISBN: 1484633628 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 25
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This fascinating book looks at how animals give us food, taking the beef we eat as an example. Engaging text and beautiful, color illustration show readers how beef is produced, processed, and packed through its long journey to end up on our plates. The Capstone Interactive edition comes with simultaneous access for every student in your school and includes read aloud audio recorded by professional voice over artists.
Author: Linda Staniford Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1484633512 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 25
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"Find out how vegetables are produced, taking the carrots we eat as an example. Discover how carrots are planted, grown then harvested, and how they are shipped to supermarkets or stores to land on our tables"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Linda Staniford Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1484633520 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 25
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"Find out how fruit is produced, taking the oranges we eat as an example. Discover how oranges are planted, grown then harvested, and how they are shipped to supermarkets or stores to land on our tables"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Michael Pollan Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0143038583 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 481
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"Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits." —The New Yorker One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year and Winner of the James Beard Award Author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestseller In Defense of Food and Food Rules What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan’s revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.
Author: Roni Neff Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118913051 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 576
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A public health approach to the US food system Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity is a comprehensive and engaging textbook that offers students an overview of today's US food system, with particular focus on the food system's interrelationships with public health, the environment, equity, and society. Using a classroom-friendly approach, the text covers the core content of the food system and provides evidence-based perspectives reflecting the tremendous breadth of issues and ideas important to understanding today's US food system. The book is rich with illustrative examples, case studies, activities, and discussion questions. The textbook is a project of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF), and builds upon the Center's educational mission to examine the complex interrelationships between diet, food production, environment, and human health to advance an ecological perspective in reducing threats to the health of the public, and to promote policies that protect health, the global environment, and the ability to sustain life for future generations. Issues covered in Introduction to the US Food System include food insecurity, social justice, community and worker health concerns, food marketing, nutrition, resource depletion, and ecological degradation. Presents concepts on the foundations of the US food system, crop production, food system economics, processing and packaging, consumption and overconsumption, and the environmental impacts of food Examines the political factors that influence food and how it is produced Ideal for students and professionals in many fields, including public health, nutritional science, nursing, medicine, environment, policy, business, and social science, among others Introduction to the US Food System presents a broad view of today's US food system in all its complexity and provides opportunities for students to examine the food system's stickiest problems and think critically about solutions.
Author: Paul B. Thompson Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199391696 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 345
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Paul B. Thompson covers diet and health issues, livestock welfare, world hunger, food justice, environmental ethics, Green Revolution technology and GMOs in this concise but comprehensive study. He shows how food can be a nexus for integrating larger social issues in social inequality, scientific reductionism, and the eclipse of morality.
Author: Pat Brisson Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing ISBN: 0884486532 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 38
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* MOONBEAM GOLD AWARD * * GROWING GOOD KIDS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY AND NATIONAL MASTER JUNIOR GARDENER PROGRAM * Milk doesn't just appear in your refrigerator, nor do apples grow in the bowl on the kitchen counter. Before We Eat has been adopted by the USDA’s Agriculture in the Classroom program. Before we eat, many people work very hard—planting grain, catching fish, tending farm animals, and filling crates of vegetables. With vibrant illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Mary Azarian, this book reminds us what must happen before food gets to our tables to nourish our bodies and spirits. This expanded edition of Before We Eat includes back-of-book features about school gardens and the national farm-to-school movement. Fountas & Pinnell Level L