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(0)Eric Schlosser
Author
Series
UMKC Social Justice Lecture Series Book volume 2011
Lexile measure
1240L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A journalist explores the homogenization of American culture and the impact of the fast food industry on modern-day health, economy, politics, popular culture, entertainment, and food production.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxii, 362 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For many years Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell struggled to make a go as farmers, doing everything they could to make the heavy clay soils of their farm at Knepp in West Sussex as productive as possible, while rarely succeeding in making a profit. By 2000, facing bankruptcy, the couple decided they would try something new. They would restore their 3,500 acres, farmed for centuries, even millennia, to the form that they had had before human intervention....
5) Food, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 261 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A cookbook that, in addition to recipes focusing on American cooking, also profiles the Big Sur Bakery's staff and follows them throughout a year.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.
8) Food chains
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful true story of one small group of workers overcoming corporate greed to end slavery and abuse in America's fields.
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This companion book to the sequel of 2008's award-winning documentary Food, Inc. examines the latest remarkable developments to reverse our dysfunctional food system through the efforts of brilliant innovators, scientists, journalists and activists.
America's food system is broken, harming family farmers, workers, the environment, and our health. But it doesn't have to be this way. Here, brilliant innovators, scientists, journalists and activists...