Just food, where locavores get it wrong and how we can truly eat responsibly, James E. McWilliams
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Just food, where locavores get it wrong and how we can truly eat responsibly, James E. McWilliams
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-245) and index
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index present
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non fiction
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Just food
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bibliography
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319868125
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James E. McWilliams
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where locavores get it wrong and how we can truly eat responsibly
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
Table Of 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
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