Author: Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Food Cost Review
Author: Food Cost Review, 1984
Author: Denis Ferrol DunhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Food Cost Review, 1985
Author: Denis Ferrol DunhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Food Cost Review, 1986
Author: Denis Ferrol DunhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
In Defence of Food
Author: Michael PollanPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141908513
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
'A must-read ... satisfying, rich ... loaded with flavour' Sunday Telegraph This book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize. In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well. By following a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table - a desk doesn't count. Don't buy food where you'd buy your petrol!), you will enrich your life and your palate, and enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy and happy. It's time to fall in love with food again. For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. His most recent book, about the ethics and ecology of eating, is The Omnivore's Dilemma, named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature.
National Food Review
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Category : Food industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Review and Evaluation of Price Spread Data for Foods
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research ServicePublisher:
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Category : Food prices
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Real Cost of Cheap Food
Author: Michael CarolanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136529772
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This challenging but accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and exploring what exactly cheap food affords us. Detailing the numerous ways that food has become reduced to a state, such as a price per ounce, combination of nutrients, yield per acre, or calories, the book argues for a more contextual understanding of food when debating its affordability. The author makes a compelling case for why today's global food system produces just the opposite of what it promises. The food produced under this regime is in fact exceedingly expensive. Thus meat production and consumption are inefficient uses of resources and contribute to climate change; the use of pesticides in industrial-scale agriculture may produce cheap food, but there are hidden costs to environmental protection, human health and biodiversity conservation. Many of these costs will be paid for by future generations – cheap food today may mean expensive food tomorrow. By systematically assessing these costs the book delves into issues related, but not limited, to international development, national security, health care, industrial meat production, organic farming, corporate responsibility, government subsidies, food aid and global commodity markets. The book concludes by suggesting ways forward, going beyond the usual solutions such as farmers markets, community supported agriculture, and community gardens. Exploding the myth of cheap food requires we have at our disposal a host of practices and policies. Some of those proposed and explored include microloans, subsidies for consumers, vertical agriculture, and the democratization of subsidies for producers.
Telling it Like it is
Author: Canada. Food Prices Review BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food prices
Languages : fr
Pages : 260
Book Description
Review of WIC Food Packages
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309450160
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1063
Book Description
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) began 40 years ago as a pilot program and has since grown to serve over 8 million pregnant women, and mothers of and their infants and young children. Today the program serves more than a quarter of the pregnant women and half of the infants in the United States, at an annual cost of about $6.2 billion. Through its contribution to the nutritional needs of pregnant, breastfeeding, and post-partum women; infants; and children under 5 years of age; this federally supported nutrition assistance program is integral to meeting national nutrition policy goals for a significant portion of the U.S. population. To assure the continued success of the WIC, Congress mandated that the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reevaluate the program's food packages every 10 years. In 2014, the USDA asked the Institute of Medicine to undertake this reevaluation to ensure continued alignment with the goals of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In this third report, the committee provides its final analyses, recommendations, and the supporting rationale.
