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  Title

  Just food : where locavores get it wrong and how we can truly eat responsibly

  Author

  McWilliams, James E.  

  Publisher:

  Little, Brown and Company,

  Pub date:

  2009.

  Pages:

  viii, 258 p. ;

  ISBN:

  9780316033749

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    GT2850 .M375 2009	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780316033749

  ISBN:

  031603374X

  029:

  BWX R2799436

  029:

  AU@ 000044169188

  029:

  NZ1 13048862

  Personal Author:

  McWilliams, James E.

  Title:

  Just food : where locavores get it wrong and how we can truly eat responsibly / James E. McWilliams.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

  Physical description:

  viii, 258 p. ; 25 cm.

  Contents:

  Food miles or friendly miles? : beyond the "farm to fork" paradigm of production -- Organic panic : discovering agriculture's golden mean -- Frankenfood? : a case for genetically modified crops -- Meat : the new caviar : saying "no," or at least "not as much," to eating land-based animals -- The blue revolution : ecological aquaculture and the future of floating protein -- Merging ecology and economy : perverse subsidies, rational incentives, and the path to fair trade.

  Summary:

  A provocative response to mixed messages surrounding the "locally grown" movement challenges popular opinions about the nutritional and environmental realities of food, revealing such information as the superior energy efficiency of imported tomatoes and the greater sustainability of farm-raised freshwater fish.

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  TODD

  Subject term:

  Food habits--Moral and ethical aspects.

  Subject term:

  Food preferences--Moral and ethical aspects.

  Subject term:

  Food industry and trade--Moral and ethical aspects.

  Subject term:

  Natural foods.

  Subject term:

  Organic living.

  Subject term:

  Environmental ethics.

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