Grow Organic Eat Organic

Author : Samuel Fromartz
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547416008
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organic, Inc. written by Samuel Fromartz and published by HMH. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “lively, comprehensive, and . . . definitive account of organic food’s rise” from a “first-rate business journalist” (Michael Pollan). Who would have thought that a natural food supermarket could have been a financial refuge from the dot-com bust? But it had. Sales of organic food had shot up about 20 percent per year since 1990, reaching $11 billion by 2003 . . . Whole Foods managed to sidestep that fray by focusing on, well, people like me. Organic food has become a juggernaut in an otherwise sluggish food industry, growing at twenty percent a year as products like organic ketchup and corn chips vie for shelf space with conventional comestibles. But what is organic food? Is it really better for you? Where did it come from, and why are so many of us buying it? Business writer Samuel Fromartz set out to get the story behind this surprising success after he noticed that his own food choices were changing with the times. In Organic, Inc., Fromartz traces organic food back to its anti-industrial origins more than a century ago. Then he follows it forward again, casting a spotlight on the innovators who created an alternative way of producing food that took root and grew beyond their wildest expectations. In the process he captures how the industry came to risk betraying the very ideals that drove its success in a classically complex case of free-market triumph.

Author : Robert Paarlberg
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525566813
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resetting the Table written by Robert Paarlberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, science-based corrective to the groundswell of misinformation about food and how it's produced, examining in detail local and organic food, food companies, nutrition labeling, ethical treatment of animals, environmental impact, and every other aspect from farm to table. Consumers want to know more about their food—including the farm from which it came, the chemicals used to grow it, its nutritional value, how the animals were treated, and the costs to the environment. They are being told that buying organic foods, unprocessed and sourced from small local farms, is the most healthful and sustainable option. But what if we’re wrong? In Resetting the Table, Robert Paarlberg reviews the evidence and finds abundant reason to disagree. He delineates the ways in which global food markets have in fact improved our diet, and how "industrial" farming has recently turned green, thanks to GPS-guided precision methods that cut energy use and chemical pollution. He makes clear that America's serious obesity crisis does not come from farms, or from food deserts, but instead from "food swamps" created by food companies, retailers, and restaurant chains. And he explains how, though animal welfare is lagging behind, progress can be made through continued advocacy, more progressive regulations, and perhaps plant-based imitation meat. He finds solutions that can make sense for farmers and consumers alike and provides a road map through the rapidly changing worlds of food and farming, laying out a practical path to bring the two together.

Author : Tanya L. K. Denckla
Publisher : Storey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781580173704
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food written by Tanya L. K. Denckla and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single-volume reference for organic food gardening is arranged in an A-to-Z format that covers planting, watering, fertilizing, harvesting, storing, working in a greenhouse, and preventing and combating plant diseases and garden pests. Original.

Author : Maria Rodale
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1605291587
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organic Manifesto written by Maria Rodale and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodale was founded on the belief that organic gardening is the key to better health both for us and for the planet, and never has this message been more urgent. Now, with Organic Manifesto, Maria Rodale, chairman of Rodale, sheds new light on the state of 21st century farming. She examines the unholy alliances that have formed between the chemical companies that produce fertilizer and genetically altered seeds, the agricultural educational system that is virtually subsidized by those same companies, and the government agencies in thrall to powerful lobbyists, all of which perpetuate dangerous farming practices and deliberate misconceptions about organic farming and foods. Interviews with government officials, doctors, scientists, and farmers from coast to coast bolster her position that chemical-free farming may be the single most effective tool we have to protect our environment and, even more important, our health.

Author : Lone Morton
Publisher : b small publishing limited
ISBN 13 : 1912909588
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grow Organic, Eat Organic written by Lone Morton and published by b small publishing limited. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you make an organic garden? Why are worms and ladybirds so important? Discover the answers to these questions as well as lots of other useful advice in this lovely first book for budding organic gardeners and cooks.

Author : Guillermo C. Jimenez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy written by Guillermo C. Jimenez and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jana Bogs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692430682
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Organic written by Jana Bogs and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our foods have lost up to 70% of some nutrients in the last 70 years. Even organic foods have little more nutrient density than those conventionally grown. This loss of nutrition may explain our increasing health concerns. Whatever your goals and dreams in life, all will be more easily achieved when your body and mind receive the best nutrition from optimally-grown foods. Learn how the Beyond Organic Growing System (BOGS) can produce Nutrition Grown foods, with many times the nutrient content of typical produce. Plants must receive the optimal nutrition they need to be able to express their full potentials to create large arrays of health-giving phytonutrients. In turn, people and animals who eat these Nutrition Grown plants receive the phytonutrients they need to help them express their full potentials. "The cure just might be in the garden-the Nutrition Grown garden!"

Author : Pamela Walker
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603441077
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas written by Pamela Walker and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more and more people seek locally grown food, independent, family owned and operated agriculture has expanded, creating local networks for selling and buying produce, meat, and dairy products and reviving local agricultural economies throughout the United States. In Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas, author Pamela Walker and photographer Linda Walsh portray eleven farming and ranching families who are part of this food revival in Texas. With biographical essays and photographs, Walker and Walsh illuminate the work these food producers do, why they do it, and the difference it makes in their lives and in their communities.

Author : Lone Morton
Publisher : Creative Activities
ISBN 13 : 9781908164650
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grow Organic, Eat Organic written by Lone Morton and published by Creative Activities. This book was released on 2012 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does organic mean? How do you make an organic garden? Why are worms and ladybirds so important? Discover the answers to these questions as well as lots of other useful advice in this lovely first book for budding organic gardeners and cooks.

Author : Arabella Forge
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616084081
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frugavore written by Arabella Forge and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares advice on how to have a healthy diet while making frugal choices, providing recipes and coverage of everything from learning cooking techniques and selecting meat to stocking a pantry and making the most of farmers' markets.