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This multi-media resource list, Public Affairs, 2009. Expanding Second Nature: A Gardener's compiled by Susan Conlon and on the film’s themes, the book Education (1991). Martha Perry of the Princeton Food, Inc. will answer those Public Library, includes books, questions through a series of Richardson, Jill. Recipe for and other materials challenging essays by leading America: Why Our Food System related to the issues presented experts and thinkers. This book will is Broken and What We Can Do in the film Food, Inc. encourage those inspired by the to Fix It. Ig Publishing, 2009. film to learn more about the issues, Food activist Jill Richardson shows In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert and act to change the world. how sustainable agriculture—where Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's local farms raise food that is , exposing the highly Hamilton, Lisa M. Deeply healthy for consumers and animals mechanized underbelly that's been Rooted: Unconventional and does not damage the hidden from the American consumer Farmers in the Age of environment—offers the only with the consent of our Agribusiness. Counterpoint, solution to America’s food crisis. In government's regulatory agencies, 2009. Journalist and photographer addition to highlighting the harmful USDA and FDA. Our nation's food Hamilton presents a multicultural conditions at factory farms, this supply is now controlled by a snapshot of the American timely and necessary book details handful of corporations that often sustainable agriculture movement, the rising grassroots food put profit ahead of consumer profiling a Texas dairyman, a New movement, which is creating an health, the livelihood of the Mexican rancher and a North agricultural system that allows American farmer, the safety of Dakotan farmer, all who have people to eat sustainably, locally, workers and our own environment. converted from conventional to and seasonally. We have bigger-breasted chickens, sustainable agriculture for economic the perfect pork chop, insecticide- and personal reasons. From Schlosser, Eric. resistant soybean seeds, even Publisher’s Weekly. Nation: The Dark Side of the All- tomatoes that won't go bad, but we American Meal. : also have new strains of E. coli — Houghton Mifflin, 2001. the harmful bacteria that causes Niman, Nicolette Hahn. Journalist Schlosser argues that the illness for an estimated 73,000 Righteous Porkchop : Finding a fast food industry has triggered the Americans annually. We are riddled Life and Good Food Beyond growth of malls in America's with widespread obesity, Factory Farms. New York, NY: landscape, widened the gap particularly among children, and an Collins Living, 2009. Part memoir, between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic level of diabetes among part expos, "Righteous Porkchop" epidemic of obesity, and propelled adults. offers a searing account of the American cultural imperialism factory farm industry--and the abroad. He discusses facts about ______effects the techniques have on food production and preparation, ADULT NONFICTION health and well-being--by an the ingredients and taste-enhancers engaging crusader who finds love in the food, the chains' efforts to Bittman, Mark. : A and purpose along the way. reel in young, susceptible Guide to Conscious Eating. New consumers, and other unsettling York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. Paytress, Mark. Break it Up: facts. Bittman offers a no-nonsense Patti Smith’s “Horses” and the rundown on how government Remaking of Rock & Roll. ADULT FICTION policy, big business marketing, and London: Portrait, 2006. The global economics influence what we release of Smith’s album, “Horses,” Grimes, Martha: Dakota. New choose to put on the table each played a crucial role in the art-punk York: New American Library, evening. He demystifies buzzwords movement of the mid-1970s. In this 2008. Once an animal rights like "organic," "sustainable," and book, Paytress explores how Smith activist, now an amnesiac drifter, "local" and offers straightforward, changed the music world with her Andi Oliver wanders from one small budget-conscious advice that will distinctive aesthetic and became Western town to the next. She help you make small changes that one of the most influential rock & takes a job at Klavan's pig farming will shrink your carbon footprint-- roll artists of all time facility and learns the gruesome and your waistline. truth about modern livestock Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's management. As she begins to Foer, Jonathan Safran. Eating Dilemma: A Natural History of uncover darker secrets about Animals. New York: Little, Four Meals. New York: Penguin Klavan's sister facility, BigSun, a Brown and Co., 2009. Brilliantly Press, 2006. An ecological and stranger from her past comes to the synthesizing philosophy, literature, anthropological study of eating surface, demanding information science, memoir and his own offers insight into food consumption about which Andi has no memory. detective work, "" in the twenty-first century, explores the many fictions we use explaining how an abundance of Ozeki, Ruth L. All Over Creation. to justify our eating habits--from unlimited food varieties reveals the New York: Viking, 2003. The folklore to pop culture to family responsibilities of consumers to three clans at once enabling and traditions and national myth--and protect their health and the torturing each other in Ruth Ozeki's how such tales can lull us into a environment. Also by Pollan: The All Over Creation--the central Fuller brutal forgetting. Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye family, the neighboring Quinns, and View of the World (2001); Food the rag-tag activist found-family Food, Inc.: A Guide: Rules: An Eater's Manual known as the "Seeds"--lift a basic How Industrial Food is Making (2009); In Defense of Food: An morality play about forgiveness to a Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer- Eater's Manifesto (2007); higher level. But what really gives And What You Can Do About It.

Delve Deeper into Food, Inc A film by Robert Kenner

All Over Creation its steam and and also addresses the question of Preschool-grade 2. Cumulative text sends it off in unexpected directions whether or not animals should have and illustrations depict what is the supporting story of modern legal protection. Additional topics happens in Jack's garden after he mankind's crucial but tenuous include the use of animals for plants his seeds. connection to nature, set in this human consumption, and the ethics case on a potato farm in sleepy of using animals for research and Drescher, Henrik: A Vegetarian Idaho. experimentation. Tale. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2006. Grades Ozeki, Ruth L. My Year of Meats. Ichord, Loretta Frances. Double 1-3. As one of many Pudgies New York: Viking, 1998. When Cheeseburgers, Quiche, and awaiting their trip to the meat Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a Vegetarian Burritos : American factory from the Pudge Processing job-producing a Japanese television Cooking from the 1920s Farm, little Hubert escapes to the show sponsored by BEEF-EX, an Through Today. Minneapolis: jungle where the animals show him organization promoting the export Millbrook Press, 2007. Grades 3- all the good foods he can eat and, of U.S. meats-she takes her crew 6. In its introduction, this title in the as a result, he becomes the first on the road in search of all- Cooking through Time series claims Pudge to achieve full size since American wives cooking all- to cover the eating habits in the ancient times. American meat. Over the course of from 1920 up to the filming, though, Jane makes a few present time. Each chapter, Harrington, Janice N. The troubling discoveries about both. illustrated with lighthearted Chicken-Chasing Queen of Meanwhile, on the other side of the drawings, presents an overview of Lamar County. New York: globe, in Japan, Akiko Ueno an American eating trend--from the Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. watches My American Wife! and first processed foods through TV Grades K-2. A young farm girl tries diligently prepares Coca-Cola Roast dinners, fast food, the to catch her favorite chicken, until and Panfried Prairie Oysters for her mainstreaming of organic foods, she learns something about the hen husband, John, (the ad-agency rep and more. Relevant recipes close that makes her change her ways. for the show’s sponsor). As Akiko each chapter. fills out his questionnaires, rating Smith, Greg Leitich: Tofu and T. each show on Authenticity, Pollan, Michael; adapted by Rex. New York: Little, Brown, Wholesomeness, and Deliciousness Richie Chevat. The Omnivore's 2003. Grades 5-8. Hans-Peter, who of Meat, certain ominous questions Dilemma: The Secrets Behind enjoys working in his family's about her own life-and the fact that What You Eat. New York: Dial Chicago delicatessen, applies for after each meal she has to go to the Books, 2009. Grades 6 +. In a admission to the prestigious bathroom and throw up-begin to smart, compelling format with Peshtigo School that his cousin surface. updated facts, plenty of photos, Freddie, a vegan and outspoken graphs, and visuals, The Omnivore's animal rights activist, attends. Tiffany, Carrie. Everyman's Dilemma encourages kids to Sequel to Ninjas, Piranhas, and Rules for Scientific Living: a consider the personal and global Galileo. novel. New York: Scribner, health implications of their food ______2006. In this novel, Jean Finnegan choices. BOOKS FOR CHILDREN searches for her place in a tumultuous world wracked by the Schlosser, Eric and Wilson, Barden, Christine. Music for Great Depression and the beginning Charles. Chew on This: Mozarts: Music Discovery Book of World War II. The "Better Everything You Don't Want to 4. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Farming Train" slides through the Know about Fast Food. Boston: Publishing Company, 2000. This wheat fields and small towns of Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006. music discovery book encourages Australia, bringing advice to the Grades 6+. and children’s exploration of music people living on the land. Charles Wilson unwrap the fast-food through singing, movement, and industry to bring you a behind-the- rhythm activities. The lessons Logsdon, Gene. The Last of the scenes look at a business that both include selections of classical music Husbandmen. Ohio University feeds and feeds off the young. Find and popular songs. Press, 2008. From the Great out what really goes on at your ______Depression, when farmers tilled the favorite restaurants-and what lurks FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES fields with plow horses, to the between those sesame seed buns. corporate farms and government “Food Fight.” A film by subsidy programs of the present, FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS Christopher Taylor. Positively th this novel presents the complex 25 Street Productions, 2008 transformation of a livelihood and of Clark, Catherine. Wurst case (91 min). A fascinating look at how a way of life. scenario. New York: American agricultural policy and ______HarperTempest, 2001. Grade 8+. food culture developed in the 20th NONFICTION FOR YOUNG Courtney, a vegetarian animal- century, and how the food ADULTS rights activist, records in her diary movement rebelled against big the events of the beginning of her agribusiness to launch the local Animal Rights. Shasta Gaughen, freshman year at a Wisconsin organic food movement. editor. San Diego: Greenhaven college, far away from Colorado and Press, 2005. Grades 9+. The her boyfriend Grant, surrounded by treatment of animals raises many cheese- and meat-lovers. complex philosophical and ethical issues. This anthology includes Cole, Henry. Jack's Garden. New selections that discuss the York: Greenwillow Books, 1995. philosophical basis of animal rights,

Delve Deeper into Food, Inc A film by Robert Kenner

“FRESH.” A film by ana Sofia “Super-Size Me.” A film by joanes. Specialty Studios . Roadside Release, 2009 (72 min). FRESH Attractions, Samuel Goldwyn celebrates the farmers, thinkers and Films and Showtime business people across America who Independent Films, 2004 (100 are re-inventing our food system. min). Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock Each has witnessed the rapid embarks on a journey to find out if transformation of our agriculture fast food is making Americans fat. into an industrial model, and For 30 days he can't eat or drink confronted the consequences: food anything that isn't on McDonald's contamination, environmental menu; he must eat three square pollution, depletion of natural meals a day, he must eat resources, and morbid obesity. everything on the menu at least Forging healthier, sustainable once and supersize his meal if alternatives, they offer a practical asked. He treks across the country vision for a future of our food and interviewing a host of experts on our planet. fast food and a number of regular folk while downing McDonald's to “.” A film by try and find out why 37% of Deborah Koons Garcia. Lily American are now overweight. Films, 2004 (88 min). In-depth Spurlock's grueling diet spirals him investigation into unlabeled into a metamorphosis that will genetically-modified foods which make you think twice about picking have become increasingly prevalent up another Big Mac. in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat.

“King Corn.” A film by Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney. Mosaic Films, 2006 (92 min). Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most productive, most subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-- and how we farm.