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

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

Label
Just food : where locavores get it wrong and how we can truly eat responsibly
Title
Just food
Title remainder
where locavores get it wrong and how we can truly eat responsibly
Statement of responsibility
James E. McWilliams
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
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
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
McWilliams, James E
Dewey number
394.1/2
Index
index present
LC call number
GT2850
LC item number
.M375 2009
Literary form
non fiction
NAL call number
GT2850
NAL item number
.M375 2009
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Food habits
  • Food preferences
  • Food industry and trade
  • Natural foods
  • Organic living
  • Environmental ethics
Label
Just food : where locavores get it wrong and how we can truly eat responsibly, James E. McWilliams
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-245) and index
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
Control code
ocn319868125
Dimensions
25 cm.
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
viii, 258 p.
Isbn
9780316033749
Lccn
2009015514
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o319868125
  • (OCoLC)319868125
Label
Just food : where locavores get it wrong and how we can truly eat responsibly, James E. McWilliams
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-245) and index
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
Control code
ocn319868125
Dimensions
25 cm.
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
viii, 258 p.
Isbn
9780316033749
Lccn
2009015514
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o319868125
  • (OCoLC)319868125

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