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A bone to pick : the good and bad news about food, along with wisdom, insights, and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs policy, farming, and more

Bittman, Mark.

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Summary: "Mark Bittman made headlines three years ago when it was revealed that, for the first time, the New York Times opinion page would feature a food writer to help us make sense of the tangled webs of food, health, environment, politics, and culture. As an opinion columnist, Mark has delighted us, enraged us, and inspired us to do more for ourselves and our world with the same no-nonsense style. In...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 BIT

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of food rights : the escalating battle over who decides what we eat

Gumpert, David E.

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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

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.19 GUM

Fat chance : beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease

Lustig, Robert H.

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Summary: "Robert Lustig's 90-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2012

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