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  • The Ethics of Food

    A Reader for the Twenty-First Century

    Food makes philosophers of us all. Death does the same . . . but death comes only once . . . and choices about food come many times each day. In The Ethics of Food, Gregory E. Pence brings together a collection of voices who share the view that the ethics of genetically modified food is among the most pressing societal questions of our time. This comprehensive collection addresses a broad range of ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

  • Starved for Science

    How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

    Listen to a short interview with Robert PaarlbergHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneHeading upcountry in Africa to visit small farms is absolutely exhilarating given the dramatic beauty of big skies, red soil, and arid vistas, but eventually the two-lane tarmac narrows to rutted dirt, and the journey must continue on foot. The farmers you eventually meet are mostly women, hardworking but ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

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  • The End Of Food

    by Paul Roberts ...
    Paul Roberts, the best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing.In this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food and shows how our system of making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Blue Covenant

    The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

    by Maude Barlow ...
    An Inconvenient Truth of water.“Imagine a world in twenty years, in which no substantive progress has been made to provide basic wastewater service in the Third World, or to force industry and industrial agriculture production to stop polluting water systems, or to curb the mass movement of water by pipeline, tanker and other diversion, which will have created huge new swaths of desert." ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Food Politics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Foodopoly

    The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

    "A meticulously researched tour de force" on politics, big agriculture, and the need to go beyond farmers' markets to find fixes ( Publishers Weekly).Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet, as a leading healthy-food advocate, Hauter believes that the local food movement ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science Left Behind

    Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left

    To listen to most pundits and political writers, evolution, stem cells, and climate change are the only scientific issues worth mentioning -- and the only people who are anti-science are conservatives. Yet those on the left have numerous fallacies of their own. Aversion to clean energy programs, basic biological research, and even life-saving vaccines come naturally to many progressives. These are ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • From Naked Ape to Superspecies

    Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis

    For millennia, we lived in harmony with the Earth, taking only what we required to survive. But in just the past few centuries, we have used our powers to satisfy our obsession with consumption and new technology, without regard for the consequences. And in doing so, we have exploited our surroundings on an unprecedented scale. In this revised and updated edition of From Naked Ape to Superspecies, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Billion Hungry

    Can We Feed the World?

    by Gordon Conway ...
    Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices, climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population, the future holds further ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • World Hunger

    10 Myths

    "The definitive solutions-based book for all those questioning why hunger still exists when there is such an abundance of food." — The Huffington Post, "Food Tank's 2015 Recommended Fall Reading List"From bestselling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the twenty-first century's authoritative book on world hunger. Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Food Politics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Seed Sovereignty, Food Security

    Women in the Vanguard of the Fight against GMOs and Corporate Agriculture

    Edited by Vandana Shiva ...
    In this unique anthology, women from around the world write about the movement to change the current, industrial paradigm of how we grow our food. As seed keepers and food producers, as scientists, activists, and scholars, they are dedicated to renewing a food system that is better aligned with ecological processes as well as human health and global social justice. Seed Sovereignty, Food Security ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD