Organic A Journalists Quest To Discover

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781493011650

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ORGANIC: A JOURNALISTS QUEST TO DISCOVER by Peter Laufer Pdf

Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label. It is also a wakeup call about the dubious origins of food labeled organic. After eating some suspect organic walnuts that supposedly were produced in Kazakhstan, veteran journalist Peter Laufer chooses a few items from his home pantry and traces their origins back to their source. Along the way he learns how easily we are tricked into taking “organic” claims at face value. With organic foods readily available at supermarket chains, confusion and outright deception about labels have become commonplace. Globalization has allowed food from highly corrupt governments and businesses overseas to pollute the organic market with food that is anything but. The organic environment is like the Wild West: oversight is virtually nonexistent, and deception runs amok. Laufer investigates so-called organic farms in Europe and South America as well as in his own backyard in the Pacific Northwest. The book examines what constitutes organic and by whom the definitions are made. The answers will stun readers, who have been sold a questionable, highly suspect, and even false bill of goods for years. View the book trailer for Organic at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owiACnN69rY.

Author : Jennifer Jensen Wallach,Lindsey R. Swindall,Michael D. Wise
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317975229

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The Routledge History of American Foodways by Jennifer Jensen Wallach,Lindsey R. Swindall,Michael D. Wise Pdf

The Routledge History of American Foodways provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of food in the Americas from the pre-colonial era to the present day. By broadly incorporating the latest food studies research, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades in this crucial field. The volume is composed of four parts. The first part explores the significant developments in US food history in one of five time periods to situate the topical and thematic chapters to follow. The second part examines the key ingredients in the American diet throughout time, allowing authors to analyze many of these foods as items that originated in or dramatically impacted the Americas as a whole, and not just the United States. The third part focuses on how these ingredients have been transformed into foods identified with the American diet, and on how Americans have produced and presented these foods over the last four centuries. The final section explores how food practices are a means of embodying ideas about identity, showing how food choices, preferences, and stereotypes have been used to create and maintain ideas of difference. Including essays on all the key topics and issues, The Routledge History of American Foodways comprises work from a leading group of scholars and presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field. It will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of food in American culture.

Author : Shauna M. McIntyre
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216125419

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Organic Food and Farming by Shauna M. McIntyre Pdf

Organic Food and Farming: A Reference Handbook is a valuable resource for students and general readers curious about the history, evolution, and growth of the organic food movement. Organic Food and Farming: A Reference Handbook begins with a deep dive into the origins of organic farming, offering a clear discussion of what constitutes organic production and how that has changed over time. Next, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of growth of organics as both an industry and a social movement and the inherent challenges that occur from trying to be both. The book additionally covers controversial issues and challenges, along with good news about what is working and what is possible. Included are essays by scholars, farmers, and experts working with NGOs as well as profiles of key people and organizations in the organic sector. Additional chapters include data and documents, a comprehensive resource list, and a detailed chronology of the key events in the history of the organic sector. Distinguishing it from others that laud or dismiss organic food and farming practices is this book's objective nature, which allows it to be used as a definitive resource on the topic.

Author : Amy Francis
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737776478

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Organic Food by Amy Francis Pdf

This book positions topics about organic food in a pro and con format, so that readers can gain insight to both sides of the story. They will read about the nutritional aspect, cost, and availability of organic food, along with questions about GMOs and the harmfulness of pesticides. Source of the articles include Farmworker Justice, The New York Post, and several subject-matter experts and essayists.

Author : Andrew F. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1085 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216085812

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Food in America [3 volumes] by Andrew F. Smith Pdf

This three-volume work examines all facets of the modern U.S. food system, including the nation's most important food and agriculture laws, the political forces that shape modern food policy, and the food production trends that are directly impacting the lives of every American family. Americans are constantly besieged by conflicting messages about food, the environment, and health and nutrition. Are foods with genetically modified ingredients safe? Should we choose locally grown food? Is organic food better than conventional food? Are concentrated animal feed operations destroying the environment? Should food corporations target young children with their advertising and promotional campaigns? This comprehensive three-volume set addresses all of these questions and many more, probing the problems created by the industrial food system, examining conflicting opinions on these complex food controversies, and highlighting the importance of food in our lives and the decisions we make each time we eat. The coverage of each of the many controversial food issues in the set offers perspectives from different sides to encourage readers to examine various viewpoints and make up their own minds. The first volume, Food and the Environment, addresses timely issues such as climate change, food waste, pesticides, and sustainable foods. Volume two, entitled Food and Health and Nutrition, addresses subjects like antibiotics, food labeling, and the effects of salt and sugar on our health. The third volume, Food and the Economy, tackles topics such as food advertising and marketing, food corporations, genetically modified foods, globalization, and megagrocery chains. Each volume contains several dozen primary documents that include firsthand accounts written by promoters and advertisers, journalists, politicians and government officials, and supporters and critics of various views related to food and beverages, representing speeches, advertisements, articles, books, portions of major laws, and government documents, to name a few. These documents provide readers additional resources from which to form informed opinions on food issues.

Author : Robert W. Thurston
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781538108093

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Coffee by Robert W. Thurston Pdf

This engaging guide traces the history, cultivation, and culture of coffee, as well as the major factors influencing the industry today. Robert Thurston provides a readable, concise overview of coffee from the time the seeds of the coffee fruit are planted to the latest ideas in roasting and making beverages. He considers cultivation and its challenges, especially climate change; new research on hybridization; the history of coffee and cultural change surrounding it around the world; devices, new and old, for making coffee drinks; the issue of organic versus conventional agriculture; and the health benefits of the brew. The first book that coffee lovers naturally will turn to, it will also appeal to anyone interested in globalization, climate change, and social justice.

Author : Geoffrey Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192521880

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Profits and Sustainability by Geoffrey Jones Pdf

Are profits and sustainability compatible? This book brings unique perspectives to this key debate by exploring the history of green entrepreneurship since the nineteenth century, and its spread globally in industries including renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, ecotourism, recycling, architecture, and finance. The book uses the lens of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who defied convention and imagined that business could help save the planet, rather than consume it. The social and religious beliefs that drove many of these individuals are explored as the book looks at how they overcame huge obstacles to execute their strategies. The green entrepreneurs seen here are shown to have created new markets and industries, and driven innovations in sustainable practices, even at times when most consumers and governments marginalized the entire subject. The struggles of early pioneers appear to have been rewarded by the growth of environmental awareness among consumers, business leaders, and others in recent years, but the Earth's environmental health continues to deteriorate. If profits and sustainability have proved challenging to reconcile, the book argues that one reason was how they were both defined.

Author : Philipp Aerni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030037987

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Global Business in Local Culture by Philipp Aerni Pdf

This book examines the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local economies, and presents selected case studies of MNEs operating in low income countries. By balancing external social and environmental costs against its corresponding benefits, the book demonstrates that MNEs can have a positive net-impact on local development if they build up social capital by embedding themselves in local economies and engaging responsibly with local stakeholders. By doing so MNEs contribute to inclusive growth, a central pillar of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In this context, the book challenges popular narratives in civil society and academia that frame foreign direct investment (FDI) merely as a threat to human rights and sustainable development. Moreover, it offers practical guidance for globally operating businesses seeking to establish progressive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies of their own.

Author : Roman Espejo
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737773903

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What Should We Eat? by Roman Espejo Pdf

Gluten, red meat, fish, insects, all things we do or don't eat, but could. Should we? This book explores how best to sustain ourselves, from organic food to fast food. Readers are treated to both sides of current dietary views on how humans should be eating for health and longevity.

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785275258

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Up Against the Wall by Peter Laufer Pdf

The book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexican border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. Up Against the Wall provides the background to understanding how the border has become a fraud, resulting in nothing more than the criminalization of Mexican and other migrants. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north.

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781250128102

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Dreaming in Turtle by Peter Laufer Pdf

A fascinating exploration into the world of turtles across the globe; Laufer charts the lore, love, and peril to a beloved species. Dreaming in Turtle is a compelling story of a stalwart animal prized from prehistory through to today—an animal threatened by human greed, pragmatism, and rationalization. It stars turtles and shady and heroic human characters both, in settings ranging from luxury redoubts to degraded habitats, during a time when the confluence of easy global trade, limited supply, and inexhaustible demand has accelerated the stress on species. The growth of the middle class in high-population regions like China, where the turtle is particularly valued, feeds this perfect storm into which the turtle finds itself lashed. This is a tale not just of endangered turtles but also one of overall human failings, frailties, and vulnerabilities—all punctuated by optimistic hope for change fueled by dedicated turtle champions.

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Oregon State University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : MINN:31951D037930336

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Interviewing by Peter Laufer Pdf

Interviewing is a crucial skill for journalists but the list of professions that rely on the interview to conduct business is long. From doctors and police to clergy and the gal or guy at the drive-through window, just about every human interaction is a form of interview. Interviewing: The Oregon Method collects analysis and instruction from three-dozen expert interview practitioners, scholars and teachers. Its chapters take focused looks at interview ethics, the sanctity of quotes, sourcing via social media, studies of interviewing in the virtual world, negotiating identity, and building rapport. The art of interviewing has been taught at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication for generations. This book binds those years of experience into a collection of vibrant essays designed to train novices and invigorate old hands. Interviewing is edited by University of Oregon's James Wallace Chair Professor of Journalism Peter Laufer, who lectures his students, The interview is intimate, immediate, and often an entree toward the soul. Conducting interviews can be both great fun and an art form.Interviewing is a primer of the digital age yet one that embraces age-old lessons, lessons that make clear the crucial importance of successful interviewing techniques for productive civic engagement. In conjunction with the Center for Innovation and Civic Engagement at the University of Oregon, USA, contributors include Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and UO professor Alex Tizon, retired Seattle Times executive editor and UO alumnus Mike Fancher, and the longtime dean of the UO School of Journalism and Communication Tim Gleason. Distributed for the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication Center for Innovation and Civic Engagement.

Author : Nathanael Johnson
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781609615482

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All Natural* by Nathanael Johnson Pdf

In this age of climate change, killer germs, and obesity, it's easy to feel as if we've fallen out of synch with the global ecosystem. This ecological anxiety has polarized a new generation of Americans: many are drawn to natural solutions and organic lifestyles, while others rally around high-tech development and industrial efficiencies. Johnson argues that both views, when taken to extremes, can be harmful, even deadly. Johnson, raised in the crunchy-granola epicenter of Nevada City, California, lovingly and rigorously scrutinizes his family's all-natural mindset, a quest that brings him into the worlds of an outlaw midwife, radical doctors, renegade farmers and one hermit forester. Along the way, he uncovers paradoxes at the heart of our ecological condition: Why, even as medicine improves, are we becoming less healthy? Why are more American women dying in childbirth? Why do we grow fatter the more we diet? Why have so many attempts to save the environment backfired? In All Natural*--a sparklingly intelligent, wry, and scrupulously reported narrative--Johnson teases fact from faith and offers a rousing and original vision for a middle ground between natural and technological solutions that will assuage frustrated environmentalists, perplexed parents, and confused consumers alike.

Author : Bob Quinn,Liz Carlisle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781610919951

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Grain by Grain by Bob Quinn,Liz Carlisle Pdf

"A compelling agricultural story skillfully told; environmentalists will eat it up." - Kirkus Reviews When Bob Quinn was a kid, a stranger at a county fair gave him a few kernels of an unusual grain. Years later, it would become the centerpiece of his multimillion dollar heirloom grain company, Kamut International. How Bob went from being a true believer in better farming through chemistry to a leading proponent of organics is the unlikely story of Grain by Grain. Along the way, readers will learn how ancient wheat can lower inflammation, how regenerative agriculture can bring back rural jobs, and how combining time-tested farming practices with modern science can point the way for the future of food.

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1250894808

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Dreaming in Turtle by Peter Laufer Pdf