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Resource Pointer #379 How Safe is the Industrial Food Supply?

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Resource Pointer #379 How Safe is the Industrial Food Supply?

February 25, 2005

 

For copies of the following resources, please contact the appropriate

publishers or organizations directly.

 

*Bad Taste: The Disturbing Truth about the World Health Organization's

Endorsement of Food Irradiation, 2002* Public Citizen and Global

Resource Action Center for the Environment. Examines the implications

of a

WHO declaration that food " treated " with ionizing radiation is safe for

human consumption. Considers whether the agency's decision has corrupted

the integrity of its analysis of the safety and wholesomeness of

irradiated foods. 43 pages. Available as a free download at

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/ or http://www.gracelinks.org/nuke/food/

Contact Public Citizen, 1600 20th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009; phone

(202) 588-1000; email: member.

 

*Diet for a Dead Planet, 2004* Christopher Cook. Argues that our

conventional food system has contributed to a staggering array of social,

economic, and environmental epidemics. Corporate control of farms and

supermarkets combined with ineffective regulation and misplaced export

subsidies have produced an unhealthy and unsustainable harvest. The

author

applauds the movement for organics, farmers‚ markets, and slow food and

argues that a transformation of the U.S. food system is imperative. 326

pages. $24.95. Contact The New Press, 38 Greene Street, 4th floor, New

York, NY 10013; phone (800) 233-4830; fax (212) 629-8617; website

http://www.thenewpress.com/

 

*Food, Inc: Corporate concentration from farmer to consumer, 2003* Bill

Vorley. Examines the impacts of the growing concentration of

corporations who trade, process, manufacture and sell agricultural

goods. The

report also points to policies that can ensure more equitable trading

relationships and provides options for re-balancing the markets. 89

pages.

Available as a free download at http://www.ukfg.org.uk/ Contact UK Food

Group, PO Box 100, London, SE1 7RT; phone (44 20) 7523-2369; fax (44

20) 7620-0719; email: ukfg.

 

*Not on the Label, 2004* Felicity Lawrence. Looks at some of the most

popular foods and the process they have gone through to end up on the

table. Considers how beef waste ends up in chicken, why a third of apples

are thrown away, and why bread is full of air and water. Examines the

social, environmental, and economic consequences of the global

industrial system of food production and the negative health

consequences for

the buying public. 272 pages. £7.99. Contact Penguin Direct, Pearson

Customer Operations, Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Essex, CM20 2JE; fax 0870

850-1115 (for UK orders only); website http://www.penguin.co.uk/ email

orders.

 

*Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism, 2003* Marion

Nestle. Argues that century-old laws for ensuring food safety no longer

protect our food and that ensuring a safe food supply involves politics.

Demonstrates that powerful food industries oppose safety regulations,

deny accountability, and blame consumers when something goes wrong. Safe

food requires government and industry to act in the public interest,

and consumers to exert democratic rights as citizens. 350 pages. $27.50.

Contact California-Princeton Fulfilment Services, 1445 Lower Ferry

Road, Ewing, NJ 08618; phone (800) 777-4726; fax (800) 999-1958; website

http://www.ucpress.edu/ email orders.

 

 

 

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