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Just Food:

Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
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Little, Brown, Aug 26, 2009 - Social Science
We suffer today from food anxiety, bombarded as we are with confusing messages about how to eat an ethical diet. Should we eat locally? Is organic really better for the environment? Can genetically modified foods be good for you?

JUST FOOD does for fresh food what Fast Food Nation (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) did for fast food, challenging conventional views, and cutting through layers of myth and misinformation. For instance, an imported tomato is more energy-efficient than a local greenhouse-grown tomato. And farm-raised freshwater fish may soon be the most sustainable source of protein.

Informative and surprising, JUST FOOD tells us how to decide what to eat, and how our choices can help save the planet and feed the world.

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The author's main arguments for thinking beyond the simple organic/conventional, local/industrial mindset to find truly sustainable and efficient food production sufficient to feed a rapidly growing ... Read full review

Review: Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly

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One of the most balanced, even-handed, and heavily-researched books on eating responsibly and environmentally out of the many I've read. Not as engaging as The Omnivore's Dilemma, but certainly more all-encompassing of the realities of food production.

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Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
James E. McWilliams
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Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
James E. McWilliams
No preview available - 2009

About the author (2009)

James E. McWilliams is currently a fellow in the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University and is an associate professor of history at Texas State University--San Marcos. He is the author of A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America and Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Society in Early Massachusetts.

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TitleJust Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
AuthorJames E. McWilliams
PublisherLittle, Brown, 2009
ISBN0316052639, 9780316052634
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