Food, Inc: Take Action - Reading List

This unique companion book explores the challenges raised by the movie in fascinating depth through 13 essays, most of them written especially for this book, and many by experts featured in the ... Full story

by Michael Pollan In Defense of Food shows us how, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the ... Full story

by Joel Salatin Drawing upon 40 years’ experience as an ecological farmer and marketer, Joel Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food ... Full story

by Marion Nestle Editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, Nestle is uniquely qualified to lead us through the maze of food industry interests and influences. She ... Full story

by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, this book (released May 2007) tells the story of how our family was changed by one ... Full story

by Mark Winne Closing the Food Gap tells the story of how we get our food: from poor people at food pantries or bodegas and convenience stores to the more comfortable classes, who increasingly ... Full story

by Eric Schlosser Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food ... Full story

by Alice L. Waters (foreword), Katrina Heron (editor) Where do great meals begin? Come to the Table brings you straight to the source of wonderful flavors, beauty, abundance, and pride of ... Full story

by Raj Patel Half the world is malnourished, the other half obese—both symptoms of the corporate food monopoly. To show how a few powerful distributors control the health of the entire ... Full story

by Michael Pollan In The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan writes about how our food is grown -- what it is, in fact, that we are eating. The book is really three in one: The first section ... Full story