Resources: Books

The Meat You Eat:
How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply
by Ken Midkiff (St. Martin's Press; 222 pages; $23.95)
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Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature:
What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Our Planet
by Martin Teitel, Ph.D., and Kimberly A. Wilson
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Breaking Bread: The Spiritual Significance of Food
by Sara Covin Juengst, Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992

Digging Deeper: Integrating Youth Gardens Into Schools & Communities
by Joseph Kiefert and Martin Kemple, ISBN: 188443004X, Food Works, 1998
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Hope's Edge
by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe. Tarcher/Putnam, New York, NY 2002.
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser. HarperCollins, 2002.

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
by Vandana Shiva. South End Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000.

Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
by Wendell Berry. Pantheon Books, New York, NY, 1993.

What are People For?
by Wendell Berry. North Point Press, San Francisco, 1990.

Home Economics
by Wendell Berry. North Point Press, San Francisco, 1987.

The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
by Wendell Berry. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1977.

Diet for a New America
by John Robbins. Stillpoint Pub., Walpole, NH, 1987.

The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and the World
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by John Robbins. Conari Press, Berkeley CA, 2001.

Food and Faith: Justice, Joy, and Daily Bread
by Mike Schut, ed. From Earth Ministry
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
by Nestle, Marion, University of California Press, 2002.
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Fast Food, Fast Track? Immigrants, Big Business, and the American Dream
by Jennifer Parker Talwar, Westview Press; 2002.
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World Food Security: A Catholic View of Food Policy in the New Millennium
by Martin M. McLaughlin, Center of Concern, 2002.

Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature
by Vandana Shiva, South End Press, 1997.
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For Hunger-Proof Cities: Sustainable Urban Food Systems
by Mustafa Koc et al (Editors)

Greening Cities: Building Just and Sustainable Communities
by Joan Roelofs. Toes Books

Is There A Moral Obligation to Save the Family Farm?
by Comstock, Gary, ed. Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1987. [HD 1476 .U5 18]

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