Harvest for hope : a guide to mindful eating

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Harvest for hope : a guide to mindful eating

Author:

Goodall, Jane, 1934-

ISBN:

9780446533621

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Warner Books, 2005.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 296 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Animals to us -- A celebration of cultures -- How we lost commonsense farming -- Seeds of discontent -- Animal factories : farms of misery -- Farming animals : hazards to our health -- Helping farm animals live better lives -- Ravaging the oceans and seas -- Becoming a vegetarian -- Global supermarkets -- Taking back our food -- Protecting our family farmers -- Eat local, eat seasonal -- An organic wave worldwide -- At home and at school : feeding our children -- Obesity, fast food, and waste -- The looming water crisis -- The story of Nebraska -- Harvest for hope.

Subject Term:

Gastronomy.

Food industry and trade.

Environmental protection.

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"An exploration of the global meaning of food and what all of us can do to exercise power over the food industry and, ultimately, our environment"--Provided by the publisher.

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World-renowned scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall earned her fame by studying chimpanzee feeding habits. But in Harvest for Hope, she scrutinizes human eating behaviors, and the colossal food industries that force-feed some cultures' self-destructive habits for mass consumption. It's an unsustainable lifestyle that Goodall argues must change immediately, beginning--not ironically--at a grassroots level.Looping personal anecdotes from 40 years of global travels with stories from noble farmer Davids and corporate Goliaths, Goodall methodically builds her case for shopping organic and living modestly. Mustering a tender gumption, she details the vicious cycle of pesticide-ridden and genetically engineered crops which feed the unknowing majority of consumers; and also feed the antibiotic-treated animals that provide these folks with inexpensive entrees. Leaving nasty slaughterhouse scenes to less tactful pens, Goodall focuses more on the product of "factory farming" techniques: mountains of waste, nutritionally depleted soil, polluted water, displaced organic farmers, and severely compromised food. Hope springs from positive sources: Edible Schoolyard programs in the U.K. and U.S., parents breaking their schools' "unholy alliance" with fast food chains and soft drink companies, a steady rise in organic purchases. Goodall offers many suggestions for rallying others, exercising one's own consumer powers, and just plain eating less meat. Conservationists might say this information is nothing new, which might explain why Goodall provides only tertiary references to her many statistics and facts. But for those who prefer that their own eating habits be stirred--not shaken--into question, the kindly Chimpanzee Lady provides the gentle touch required. --Liane Thomas

Author Notes

Jane Goodall, 1934 - Jane Goodall, a well-respected English zoologist, is famous for her fieldwork with chimpanzees in Africa. An early interest in African wild animals and the opportunity, at age 18, to stay on a friend's farm in Kenya, led her to Dr. Louis Leakey; then curator of the National Museum of Natural History in Nairobi. Almost immediately Leakey hired Goodall as his assistant secretary, and she was soon accompanying Leakey and his wife on their expeditions.

Following Leakey's suggestion that a field study of some of the higher primates would be a major contribution to the understanding of animal behavior, she began studying the chimpanzees of the Gombe Stream Research Center in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1960. Although she had no undergraduate degree, Goodall earned a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1965, based on her first five years of research at the Gombe Center. After more than 20 years of extensive study and direct contact with wild chimpanzees in their natural habitat, Goodall continues to research, teach, and write about primate behavior today.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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Goodall, best known for her decades of work with chimpanzees and baboons, turns to the social significance of the food people eat and of how it reaches our tables. In a style that's both persuasive and Pollyannaish, her guide glides through a quick history of early agriculture, despairs of "death by monoculture" (single-crop farming), warns of the hazards of genetically modified foods and of the disappearance of seed diversity, and bemoans the existence of inhumane animal factories and unclean fish farms-the macro concerns of the environmentally conscious. On a more micro level, she focuses on what individuals can do for themselves. In a grab bag of well-intentioned bromides, Goodall counsels her readers to become vegetarians, celebrates restaurants and grocery stores that seek out locally grown produce, frets about the quality of school lunches and the pervasiveness of fast food-fueled obesity, honors small farmers and warns of a looming water crisis. Most chapters conclude with "what you can do" sections: demand that modified foods be labeled; turn off the tap while brushing your teeth. This book about making healthy choices breaks no new ground, but its jargon-free and anecdote-rich approach makes it a useful primer for grassroots activists, while the Goodall imprimatur could broaden its reach. Agent, Jonathan Lazear. (Nov. 1) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Introduction	p. xvii
Chapter 1 Animals to Us	p. 1
Nature's Ingenuity	p. 3
Tool Use and Hunting	p. 6
New Light on Human Evolution	p. 8
Fire-The Origins of Cooking	p. 11
The Dawn of Human Culture	p. 12
Chapter 2 A Celebration of Cultures	p. 14
Different Places, Different Foods	p. 17
Cheers! Salute! Skoal!	p. 21
Food on the Streets	p. 23
Fingers, Forks, and Chopsticks	p. 25
Celebrations and Feasts	p. 27
Food and Religious Traditions	p. 30
Chapter 3 How We Lost Commonsense Farming	p. 37
Chemical Life Support	p. 38
Growing Food with Poisons	p. 40
Our Chemical Legacy	p. 42
A Hopeful Awakening	p. 44
Chapter 4 Seeds of Discontent	p. 45
Caution: Biohazards Ahead	p. 47
A Letter Comes in the Mail ...	p. 48
Lord of the Seeds	p. 51
Small Farmers Strike Back	p. 54
They Were Wrong Before	p. 57
Animals and GMOs	p. 59
What You Can Do	p. 63
Chapter 5 Animal Factories: Farms of Misery	p. 66
The Plight of Poultry	p. 69
Not All Pigs Live Like Babe	p. 71
Beef: The Hidden Story	p. 74
Not-So-Contented Cows	p. 76
Veal: What You've Heard Is True	p. 77
The Birth of Frankenfoods	p. 78
Honoring the Ancient Contract	p. 79
Chapter 6 Farming Animals: Hazards to Our Health	p. 82
They Don't Even Call Them Farms	p. 82
Disease in the Slaughterhouse	p. 83
Bacteria	p. 84
Viruses	p. 85
Hormones	p. 86
Antibiotic Resistance	p. 87
Animal Waste: The Cycle of Pollution	p. 89
Pig Business Is Big Business	p. 90
Chapter 7 Helping Farm Animals Live Better Lives	p. 97
Use Your Consumer Power	p. 99
Hold Restaurants Accountable	p. 100
Talk to Your Grocer	p. 100
Read Labels Carefully	p. 102
Buy Grass-Fed Animal Products	p. 103
Support the Right Farmers	p. 105
One Thread at a Time	p. 111
Help Rescue Animals	p. 112
Chapter 8 Ravaging the Oceans and Seas	p. 117
The Great Lakes of Africa	p. 119
Hazards of Fish Farming	p. 121
Harmful to Humans	p. 124
Farming the Tiger Prawns	p. 127
Willing to Take the Risk?	p. 130
Our Mercurial Oceans	p. 131
What You Can Do	p. 131
Chapter 9 Becoming a Vegetarian	p. 135
Consider Our Children	p. 142
How Eating Meat Impacts the Environment	p. 145
Feeding Our Appetite for Meat	p. 147
Irresponsible Use of Water	p. 149
A Case for Eating Less Meat and Seafood	p. 149
Chapter 10 Global Supermarkets	p. 153
The Myth of "Fresh Food"	p. 154
Chapter 11 Taking Back Our Food	p. 159
Sensible Farming	p. 160
Deep Organic, Shallow Organic	p. 162
The Cost of Organic Foods	p. 168
Can We Really Afford "Cheap" Food?	p. 169
What You Can Do	p. 170
Chapter 12 Protecting Our Family Farmers	p. 175
Local: The New Organic	p. 176
Pound, Dollar, Peso, Rupee: Local Is Affordable	p. 184
Farming in Our Cities	p. 184
Saving Family Farms	p. 187
What You Can Do	p. 188
Chapter 13 Eat Local, Eat Seasonal	p. 191
Protecting Our Heirlooms	p. 193
As Those Who Came Before	p. 194
Traditional Foods Are the Healthiest	p. 195
Slow Food Picks Up the Pace	p. 197
Changing the World One Hard Hat at a Time	p. 198
What You Can Do	p. 202
Chapter 14 An Organic Wave Worldwide	p. 208
Sustaining Hope	p. 209
Helping Women to Take Care of the Earth	p. 211
It All Begins and Ends with Soil	p. 212
Local Food for Local People	p. 214
What You Can Do	p. 215
Chapter 15 At Home and at School: Feeding Our Children	p. 218
School Meals	p. 222
A Delicious Revolution	p. 224
And Then There's the Big Dream	p. 230
Feed Me Better: The Naked Chef Goes to School	p. 232
Appetite for a New Curriculum	p. 234
What You Can Do	p. 236
Chapter 16 Obesity, Fast Food, and Waste	p. 238
The Not-So-Missing Link	p. 242
The Seduction of Happy Meals	p. 242
Beware of Corn Syrup	p. 244
Junk Foods, Sugar, and Violence	p. 246
Waste Not, Want Not	p. 247
What You Can Do	p. 248
Chapter 17 The Looming Water Crisis	p. 250
Wasting Water	p. 252
The Truth About Bottled Water	p. 253
And About Those Plastic Bottles ...	p. 253
When Corporations Own the Water	p. 254
Will Wars Be Fought Over Water?	p. 258
What You Can Do	p. 259
Chapter 18 The Story of Nebraska	p. 261
They Have the Corn	p. 264
They Have the Factory Farms	p. 264
They Have the Global Supermarket	p. 266
And They Have the Water Crisis	p. 268
Yet Hope Grows in Nebraska	p. 271
Chapter 19 Harvest for Hope	p. 278
Changing the World: One Purchase, One Meal, One Bite at a Time	p. 283
Eating to Vote	p. 285
Resources	p. 287

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