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Food and Sustainability

America's industrialized food system has effects on our environment, health, economy and workers' rights. The issues are complicated, including widespread diabetes and obesity, factory farming and pesticides and its environmental impact. Foodborne illness is a common risk. How do genetic engineering and cloning propose to address the world-wide food crisis? How can we protect farmworkers? Will nutritional labeling on restaurant food help? The Orbach Science Library has many books related to these issues. See some additional books on the topic, from a social sciences perspective in the Rivera Library.

Food, Inc. was screened on February 24th, 2011 in University Lecture Hall 1000 from 5-7pm, and was followed by a discussion led by Gustavo Plascencia, GM of Safety, Sustainability and Project Development in Dining. The screening was presented in collaboration with: Sustainable UCR, ASUCR, UCR Office of Sustainability, and UCR Dining Services.

Bibliography:

In Orbach Science Library, with Book Jackets

	Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life / Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver ; original drawings by Richard A. Houser. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2007. S521.5.A67 K56 2007
	Consumer acceptance of genetically modified foods / edited by Robert E. Evenson and Vittorio Santaniello. Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; Cambridge, MA, USA : CABI Pub., c2004. TP248.65.F66 C66 2004
	Dinner at the new gene café : how genetic engineering is changing what we eat, how we live, and the global politics of food / Bill Lambrecht. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2001. TP248.65.F66 L35 2001
	Eat your genes : how genetically modified food is entering our diet / Stephen Nottingham. London ; New York : Zed Books Ltd., 2003. TP248.65.F66 N67 2003
	Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal / Eric Schlosser. Publisher     Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
	Food, inc. : Mendel to Monsanto--the promises and perils of the biotech harvest / Peter Pringle. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003. S494.5.B563 P74 2003
	Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. TX360.U6 N47 2002
	The gene revolution : GM crops and unequal development / edited by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr. London; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2007. TP248.65.F66 G44 2007
	Gene wars : the politics of biotechnology / Kristin Dawkins. New York : Seven Stories Press ; London : Turnaround, c2003. S494.5.B563 D39 2003
	Genetic roulette : the documented health risks of genetically engineered foods / Jeffrey M. Smith. Fairfield, Iowa : Yes! Books, 2007. TP248.65.F66 S567 2007
	Genetically modified language : the discourse of arguments for GM crops and food / Guy Cook. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004,c2005. SB123.57 .C665 2004
	The GM debate : risk, politics and public engagement / Tom Horlick-Jones ... [et al.]. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007. TP248.65.F66 G62 2007
	In defense of food : an eater's manifesto / Michael Pollan. New York : Penguin Press, 2008. RA784 .P643 2008
	Mendel in the kitchen : a scientist's view of genetically modified foods / Nina V. Fedoroff and Nancy Marie Brown. Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2004. TP248.65.F66 F436 2004
	Seeds for the future : the impact of genetically modified crops on the environment / Jennifer A. Thomson. Ithaca, NY : Comstock Pub. Associates, 2007, c2006. SB123.57.T49 S4 2007
	Seeds of deception : exposing industry and government lies about the safety of the genetically engineered foods you're eating / Jeffrey M. Smith. Fairfield, IA : Yes Books, c2003. TP248.65.F66 S64 2003
	Something from the oven : reinventing dinner in 1950s America / Laura Shapiro. New York : Viking, 2004. TX649.A1 S53 2004
	Stuffed and starved : the hidden battle for the world food system / Raj Patel. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House Pub., c2007. HD9000.5 .P277 2007
	Tomorrow's table : organic farming, genetics, and the future of food / Pamela C. Ronald, Raoul W. Adamchak. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. TP248.65.F66 R66 2008
	Travels in the genetically modified zone / Mark L. Winston. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002. TP248.65.F66 W565 2002
	Why care for nature? : in search of an ethical framework for environmental responsibility and education / by Dirk Willem Postma Dordrecht : Springer, c2006

In Orbach Science Library, without Book Jackets

• Access to affordable and nutritious food : measuring and understanding food deserts and their consequences : report to Congress / USDA.
  [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, [2009]
  Online version
• Food industry and the environment : practical issues and cost implications / edited by J. M. Dalzell.
  London : New York : Blackie Academic & Professional, 1994.
  TD195.F57 F67 1994
• The food marketing revolution, 1950-90 / Alden C. Manchester.
  [Washington, DC] : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, [1991]
• Genetically engineered crops : agencies are proposing changes to improve oversight, but could take additional steps to enhance coordination and monitoring : report to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, U.S. Senate / United States Government Accountability Office.
  [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2008]
  Online version
• The new economics of fast food / Robert L. Emerson.
  New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1990.
  TX945 .E65 1990 
• Seniors going hungry in America : a call to action and warning for the future : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, Washington, DC, March 5, 2008.
  Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2008.
  Online version

This exhibit was created on February 12, 2011 and  designed by Margaret Hogarth and Mary Miller .


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