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People's historyAstyk, Sharon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1973 ASTCarpenter, Stephanie A.
Summary: "The Women's Land Army sent volunteers to farms, canneries, and dairies across the country, where they accounted for a great proportion of wartime agricultural workers. On The Farm Front tells for the first time the remarkable story of these women who worked to ensure both "Freedom From Want" at home and victory abroad."."Formed in 1943 as part of the Emergency Farm Labor Program, the WLA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northern Illinois University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CARImhoff, Dan
Summary: The Farm Bill is one of the most important pieces of legislation the American president signs. Negotiated every five to seven years, it has tremendous implications for food production, nutrition assistance, habitat conservation, international trade, and much more. Yet at nearly 1,000 pages, it is difficult to understand for policymakers, let alone citizens. In this primer, Dan Imhoff and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 IMHLohman, Sarah
Summary: "American food traditions are in danger of being lost. How do we save them?"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: "Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, Chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture, where school children ride trams through mechanized warehouses filled with tens of thousands of cows that never see the light of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 FREBloom, Jonathan.
Summary: Examines food waste in the United States, what it says about Americans, the economic and environmental impacts of food waste, and how to lessen what is wasted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.72 BLOZiegelman, Jane
Summary: "From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced--the Great Depression--and how it transformed America's culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ZIEHayes, Joanne Lamb.
Summary: A gathering of more than 150 classic World War II-era recipes also offers appropriate anecdotes, advertisements, and cooking tips from that time, as well as discussing ration books, victory menus, food substitutes, and wartime entertaining.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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Summary: A look at food in the United States from colonial times to the present, describing what we have eaten, where it came from, and how it reflected events in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.1 WHIHesterman, Oran B.
Summary: Describes the dysfunctions in the current food system, from chemical runoff to inhumane treatment of animals, and presents new principles and concrete steps to restructure how food is grown, packaged, delivered, marketed, and sold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 HESWeiss, Elaine F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.373 WEIHauter, Wenonah.
Summary: Through meticulous research, Hauter presents a shocking account of how agricultural policy has been hijacked by lobbyists, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of the likes of Cargill, Tyson, Kraft, and ConAgra. She demonstrates how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic stagnation in rural communities at home, to famines in poor countries overseas. In the end,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 HAULorr, Benjamin
Summary: "In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store What does it take to run the American supermarket? How do products get to shelves? Who sets the price? And who suffers the consequences of increased convenience end efficiency? In this alarming exposae, author Benjamin Lorr pulls back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.4 LORSummary: "Within the last half century, our agricultural and food industries have changed more than ... ever before. New technologies and scientific ingenuity have given rise to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other man-made foods. People have begun to raise concerns about the safety of GMOs in our food supply, given their incredible dominance in a large portion of our diets. Traditional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: KITG Productions 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OFKelley, Margot Anne
Summary: "Ever wonder if there's a better way to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022
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Summary: "Do Americans have the right to privately obtain the foods of our choice from farmers, neighbors, and local producers, in the same way our grandparents and great grandparents used to do?Yes, say a growing number of people increasingly afraid that the mass-produced food sold at supermarkets is excessively processed, tainted with antibiotic residues and hormones, and lacking in important...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013