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Bittman, Mark

Summary: "From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species-and points the way to a better future"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 BIT

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 394.1 BIT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Bittman 2021

Berry, Wendell

Summary: In The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families, and as a nation we are thus more estranged from the land - from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, as Berry notes in the afterword to this new edition, his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books 1996

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Kelley, Margot Anne

Summary: "Ever wonder if there's a better way to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 334 KEL

Berry, Wendell

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 1981

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Kaskowitz, Sheryl

Summary: "In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest-Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 KAS

Whybrow, Peter C.

Summary: An analysis of the American consumer culture cites modern statistics in obesity, depression, and panic disorders, drawing on detailed case studies to explain how today's affluent society is directly related to key social and medical issues.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 301 WHY

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