Check It Out - Food Safety

America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat by Harvey Blatt After taking us on a tour of the American food system -- not only the basic food groups but soil, grain farming, organic food, genetically modified food, food processing, and diet -- Blatt reminds us that we aren't powerless. Once we know the facts about food in America, we can change things by the choices we make as consumers, as voters, and as ethical human beings. (Publisher’s Description)		Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry is Killing Us by Christopher D. Cook Cook argues cogently for a whole new way of looking at what we eat – one that places healthy, sustainably produced food at the top of the menu for political change. (Publisher’s Description)
Dinner at the New Gene Café by Bill Lambrecht More than half of America's processed grocery products -- from cornflakes to granola bars to diet drinks -- contain gene-altered ingredients. [The author] expertly lays out the battle lines of the impending collision between a powerful but unproved technology and a gathering resistance from people worried about the safety of genetic change. (Publisher’s Description)		Nutrition and food safety by Terry L. Smith Rapid changes in the food industry often outpace the ability of government oversight to protect the consumer. Learn about the interconnecting responsibilities of farmers, food processors, retailers, government regulators, and consumers to assure a safe food supply. (Publisher’s Description)

Poisoned: the true story of the deadly E. Coli outbreak that changed the way Americans eat by Jeff Benedict. A fast-paced narrative and a cautionary tale about how public health policy, corporate practices and public relations, and lawyers' chutzpah and frenzy for fees can converge in a place we all know well. (Associated Press)		The Safe Food Handbook: How to Make Smart Choices About Risky Food by Heli Perrett Demystifies the perils in our food—infectious bacteria, deadly molds, hormones, antibiotics, toxins, irradiation, and even wax on produce. (Publisher’s Description)
Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety by Marion Nestle Marion Nestle, author of the critically acclaimed Food Politics, argues that ensuring safe food involves more than washing hands or cooking food to higher temperatures. It involves politics. When it comes to food safety, billions of dollars are at stake, and industry, government, and consumers collide over issues of values, economics, and political power--and not always in the public interest. Although the debates may appear to be about science, Nestle maintains that they really are about control: Who decides when a food is safe? (Publisher’s Description)		CQ Researcher, Dec. 17, 2010 A concise overview of the issues, background, current situation and outlook concerning food safety.
Food, Inc [videorecording] / Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media and River Road Entertainment present ; Perfect Meal, LLC ; produced by Elise Pearlstein ; produced and directed by Robert Kenner. Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. (Publisher’s Description)

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