This page is a work in progress.  It is a gathering place for resources and links on topics related to food for Spring 2009 IDS200 research projects.  

Food related websites and links:

Michael Pollan's "Farmer in Chief" article from the October 9, 2008 New Your Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&ref=magazine

Animal Vegetable Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver

http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/

This website continues to document the project and may help you find more resources and other local-food devotees in a rapidly growing movement.

http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/Resources2.html

Organizations with relevance to local, sustainable and responsible food. (Lots of great resources here.)

NOFAMASS (Northeast Organic Farming Association)

http://www.nofamass.org/index.php

NOFA/Mass is a community including farmers, gardeners, landscapers and consumers working to educate members and the general public about the benefits of local organic systems based on complete cycles, natural materials, and minimal waste for the health of individual beings, communities and the living planet.

http://www.nofamass.org/programs/standards/index.php

Late in December 2000 the US Department of Agriculture finally issued the final revised version of the National Organic Program Standards. Eventually all NOFAs and it seems all organic certifying agencies will need to comply with these national standards.

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

http://www.fao.org/ethics/index_en.htm

Major changes in the fields of food and agriculture in recent years, including accelerating technological development, changes in the resource base, and economic and market developments, have brought to the fore a variety of ethical questions of relevance to food security and sustainable rural development.

100-Mile Diet

http://www.100milediet.org/local-resources/

Local resource list from the authors of 100-Mile Diet and Plenty

Friends of the Earth

http://www.foe.co.uk/index.html

The British take on many food topics.

Agricultural Justice Project

www.agriculturaljusticeproject.org

Certifications

Fair Trade:

http://www.fairtradefederation.org/

http://www.fairtrade.net/

Organic:

http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/indexIE.htm

http://www.ccof.org/

(most states have one)

Ethical treatment of food animals: 

http://www.certifiedhumane.com/

http://www.uepcertified.com/news/release20051003.html

http://www.cok.net/camp/acc/

http://www.certifiedhumane.com/links.html

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/products/meat-poultry/index.html

Book Selections from the Alden Library

TITLE        Golems among us : how a Jewish legend can help us navigate the biotech century / Byron L. Sherwin.

PUBLISHED    Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2004.

Quinsigamond Stacks     TP248.23.S535 2004

TITLE        The gospel of food : everything you think you know about food is wrong / Barry Glassner.

EDITION      1st ed.

PUBLISHED    New York : Ecco, c2007.

Quinsigamond Stacks     GT2853.U5 G53 2007            

TITLE        Food, inc. : Mendel to Monsanto--the promises and perils of the biotech harvest / Peter Pringle.

PUBLISHED    New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003.

Quinsigamond Stacks     S494.5.B563 P74 2003    

TITLE        Slow Food : the case for taste / Carlo Petrini ; translated by William McCuaig.

PUBLISHED    New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.

Quinsigamond Stacks     TX631.P474 2003               

TITLE        Is our food safe? : a consumer's guide to protecting your health and the environment / Warren Leon and Caroline Smith DeWaal ;

foreword by Michael F. Jacobson.

EDITION      1st ed.

PUBLISHED    New York : Three Rivers Press, c2002.

Quinsigamond Stacks     RC622.L46 2002                

TITLE        Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle.

PUBLISHED    Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

DESCRIPTION  xii, 457 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

09 > Quinsigamond Stacks     TX360.U6 N47 2003             

TITLE        Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal / Eric Schlosser.

EDITION      1st Perennial ed.

PUBLISHED    New York : Perennial, 2002.

DESCRIPTION  383 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Quinsigamond Stacks     TX945.3.S355 2002             

AUTHOR       Pollan, Michael.

TITLE        The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals /

Michael Pollan.

PUBLISHED    New York : Penguin Press, 2006.

Quinsigamond Stacks     GT2850.P65 2006               

AUTHOR       Singer, Peter, 1946-

TITLE        The way we eat : why our food choices matter / Peter Singer, Jim Mason.

PUBLISHED    [Emmaus, Pa.] : Rodale ; [New York] : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, c2006.

Quinsigamond Stacks     TX357.S527 2006               

AUTHOR       Nottingham, Stephen, 1960-

TITLE        Eat your genes : how genetically modified food is entering our diet / Stephen Nottingham.

EDITION      2nd updated ed.

PUBLISHED    London ; New York : Zed Books Ltd., 2003.

Quinsigamond Stacks     TP248.65.F66 N67 2003 

AUTHOR       Roberts, Paul.

TITLE        End of food / Paul Roberts.

PUBLISHED    Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, c2008.

Quinsigamond Stacks     HD9000.5.R578 2008  

AUTHOR       Wilk, Richard.

TITLE        Fast food/slow food : the cultural economy of the global food system / edited by Richard Wilk.

PUBLISHED    Lanham, MD : Altamira Press, c2006.

Quinsigamond Stacks     HD9000.5.F29 2006   

LOCATIONS    C/W MARS OverDrive Titles

TITLE        Super size me [electronic resource] / Roadside Attractions, Samuel Goldwyn Films and Showtime Independent Films present a production by the Con in association with Studio-On-Hudson ; a film by Morgan Spurlock ; producer, Morgan Spurlock ; writer,

Morgan Spurlock ; directed by Morgan Spurlock.

PUBLISHED    New York : Hart Sharp Video : Made available by OverDrive, c2006.

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NOTE         A downloadable video file.

NOTE         Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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