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Call No: 338.4 IND Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As of 2015, one in three people worked in agriculture globally. With agriculture contributing only 3 percent of the global GDP, it is challenging for those workers to earn a living wage. Concerns are levied against companies in the food industry, with questions raised about their ethics and their treatment of workers, livestock, and the environment. The massive scale of the industry makes regulation difficult, but under-regulation can result in public health crises. The diverse viewpoints in this volume explore the controversies, challenges, and solutions involved in providing food in our world today.
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-- 54 bite-sized videos about the story of your foodc2011., WorldLink Call No: DVD 613.1 NOU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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[2013], Random House Call No: 613.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Identifies the factors that have contributed to the modern obesity crisis in America, detailing the impact of processed foods on our diets and overall health. Discusses how the ongoing quest for profits and increasingly better-tasting foods have resulted in an unhealthy processed foods industry that can only survive by producing foods laden with fat, salt, and sugar.
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-- Stuffed & starved[2012], Melville House Call No: 338.19 Pat Edition: Second edition, Rev Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discusses the history of the global food industry and argues that it has become an unjust system, the evidence for that being that a billion people in the world are starving while more than that are overweight. Offers advice on how to make the global food system more democratic and fair for those in countries less fortunate than nations of the West.
