Food Matters: A Bedford Spotlight Reader

✍ Scribed by Holly Bauer

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 745
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

About this Book
Cover Page
Inside Front Cover
Halftitle Page
The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series Editorial Board
Title Page
Copyright Page
About The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series
Preface for Instructors
Bedford/St. Martin’s Puts You First
Contents
Contents by Discipline
Contents by Theme
Contents by Rhetorical Purpose
Introduction for Students
Chapter 1 What Is the Purpose of Food?
Eat Food: Food Defined
Why the Fries Taste Good
Her Chee-to Heart
Eating Made Simple
The Pleasures of Eating
Eating the Hyphen
Are You Really Appreciating the Apple?
Chapter 2 What Forces Affect Our Food Choices?
Nutritional Guidelines
Why Shame Won’t Stop Obesity
How Junk Food Can End Obesity
Why So Many Rich Kids Come to Enjoy the Taste of Healthier Foods
The Hidden Resilience of “Food Desert” Neighborhoods
Liver and Opinions: Why We Eat What We Eat and Despise the Rest
Why I’ve Never Learned How to Cook
I’m a Black Food Writer. Here’s Why We Need More Like Me
Chapter 3 What Does It Mean to Eat Ethically?
The Changing Significance of Food
You Can’t Run Away on Harvest Day
The Only Way to Have a Cow
Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
Industrial Farming Is One of the Worst Crimes in History
The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals
Stop the Rot
Chapter 4 How Does Our Food System Contribute to the Climate Crisis?
Can We Feed the World and Sustain the Planet?
Grocery Stores Are Packed with Plastic. Some Are Changing
Can a Climate Conscious Diet Include Meat or Dairy?
The Biography of a Plant-Based Burger: One Man’s Mission to Make Meat Obsolete
How to Cook a Planet
Heartland
The Least Deadly Catch: Ocean Farming in the Climate Change Era
How One Tribe Is Fighting for Their Food Culture in the Face of Climate Change
Chapter 5 What Is the Future of Food?
Will Organic Food Fail to Feed the World?
Attention Whole Foods Shoppers
We Need Better Answers on Nutrition
Hardship on Mexico’s Farms, a Bounty for U.S. Tables
Biotechnology Isn’t the Key to Feeding the World
Recycling Energy
The Future of Farming Is Looking Up
Sentence Guides for Academic Writers
Acknowledgments
Index of Authors and Titles
Inside Back Cover
Back Cover