food industry and trade

English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist, Jane Goodall, examines the benefits of eating locally grown and organic produce and ways to make environmentally responsible choices.

Profiles thirty careers in the food industry, with information on each job's education and training requirements, salary range, employment outlook, perks, and pitfalls.

Presents both sides of food production issues, including animal welfare, high-tech farming, genetically modified foods, organic farming, food distribution, and world hunger.

Explores food contamination and food-borne sickness and provides suggestions for making wise food choices.

Presents a global look at how food is traded between countries, including rules that affect trade and how those rules impact people, the environment, and the economy.

Examines the production of dairy products, beef, and other agricultural items for mass consumption, discussing past and present methods and new technological advances.

Investigates the hidden connection between global food and global finance by asking the simple question: Why can't delicious, inexpensive, and healthy food be available to everyone on Earth? Reveals that money pouring into the global derivatives market in grain futures is having astonishing consequences that reach far beyond your dinner table, including the Arab Spring, bankrupt farmers, starving masses, and armies of scientists creating new GMO foods with U.S. marketing and shipping needs in mind instead of global nutrition. Our food is getting less healthy, less delicious, and more expensive even as the world's biggest food companies and food scientists say things are better than ever and that the rest of us should leave it to them to feed the world.Readers of Bet the Farm will glimpse the power behind global food and understand what truly supports the system that has brought mass misery to our planet.

Over the past three years, Hardwick, Vermont, a typical hardscrabble farming community of 3,000 residents, has jump-started its economy and redefined its self-image through a local, self-sustaining food system unlike anything else in America. Even as the recent financial downturn threatens to cripple small businesses and privately owned farms, a stunning number of food-based businesses have grown in the region. The mostly young entrepreneurs have created a network of community support; they meet regularly to share advice, equipment, and business plans, and to loan each other capital. Hardwick is fast becoming a model for other communities to replicate its success.--From publisher description.

Chronicles major food trends in the United States during the twentieth century, demonstrating how changes in society have impacted dietary and dining habits.

Examines the environmental impact of people's food choices and encourages people to make smarter, more earth-friendly choices when shopping and cooking, explaining how the global food market is responsible for more than one third of total greenhouse-gas emissions.