food industry and trade

Explores food additives.

A look at fast food, what's in it, how it's made, and what it does to our bodies.

Explores questions surrounding how we prepare and eat our food. Discusses genetically modified foods, regulation of the food industry, benefits and concerns of food technology, and what to expect in the future.

Explores where chocolate comes from, how it is made and discusses how fair trade helps people around the world achieve better working conditions and fair prices for growing chocolate and other products such as bananas, tea, peanuts, sugar and honey.

Uses color illustrations to look at various facts about food.

"Engaging images accompany information about Kraft. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--.

"Most of us eat three full meals a day, but where does the food that reaches our plates, stocks our fridges, and fills the supermarket shelves come from? This informative book shows how methods of growing, using, and delivering food--one of the most vital resources to humans--have developed and changed throughout time. Find out about the history of food production and present-day methods of farming. Learn about food delivery, the processes used to preserve and store food to make it last longer, how different foods are prepared, and food safety. Case studies encourage discussion of the ethics and worldwide impact of the production, distribution, and consumption of this global resource."--.

Examines the fast food industry with facts about its evolution and practices, the effects of fast food consumption on public health, and the international success of fast food.

Food waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks?these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet, today in the United States, laws exist at all levels of government that actually make these problems worse. Baylen Linnekin argues that, too often, government rules handcuff America?s most sustainable farmers, producers, sellers, and consumers, while rewarding those whose practices are anything but sustainable.

Provides strategies for losing weight and improving health.