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bibliography Documentaires. Documentary films. Documents d'information. Films autres que de fiction. Informational works. Instructional and educational works. Matériel d'éducation et de formation. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.Frerick, Austin
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 Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 FRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 FREHauter, 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 HAUFrey, Sarah
Summary: "One woman's tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business--without ever leaving the land she loved. The youngest of her parents' combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in Southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to Hollywood,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREY, SARAH FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FREY FRESummary: Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo team up with authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to examine the modern food industry's efficiency and vulnerabilities. -- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is convicted of trying to steal U.S. trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three neatlydressed Asian men at a cornfield that had been leased by Monsanto to grow corn from patented hybrids. What began as a routine inquiry into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 HVISummary: This companion book to the sequel of 2008's award-winning documentary Food, Inc. examines the latest remarkable developments to reverse our dysfunctional food system through the efforts of brilliant innovators, scientists, journalists and activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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Summary: "The first and definitive history of the use of food in American law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era In 1789, to subjugate Indigenous tribes, George Washington ordered his troops to "ruin their crops on the ground and prevent them planting more." Destroying the sources of food is just one way that the United States has used...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 FRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 FREShah, Raj M.
Summary: "A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon--the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X--whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley's cutting-edge technology to America's from the two men who launched the unit." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024