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Master VEG |
Schedule |
Speakers |
MVP Presentations |
Resources:Health Environment Animal Issues Food/Agriculture Communication/Action Cooking |
Ole Ersson, M.D.
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Master VEG Resources: Foodand Agriculture
Sample Books: Food Industry
Food Politics: How The Food Industry Influences Nutrition And HealthBy Marion Nestle, Nutrition Chair at New York University and award winning author. 2002
Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed The World, and Keep Us Safe
Maria Rodale (2010). In this book Maria Rodale contends that agricultural systems globally must move to organic practices to preserve our rapidly deteriorating topsoil. Farming must revert to practices that avoid chemical inputs that poison all forms of life. Fertile soil, with it's high carbon content, helps absorb carbon dioxide, therefore, reducing the impact of global climate change. Fertile soil retains moisture, significantly reducing increasingly-scarce potable water.
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice In A Time Of Climate Crisis
Vandana Shiva (2008). Vandana Shiva reveals what connects humanity's most urgent crises: food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change. All three must be addressed together. She argues for a return to sustainable agricultural practices and principles, and a world based on self-organization, community, and environmental justice.
Omnivore's Dilemma (2006)
In Defense of Food (2008)
Michael Pollan
Two very popular books by a journalist and omnivore that point out the troubling changes in our food system.
Appetite For Profit
How The Food Industry Undermines Our Health And How To Fight Back
By Michele Simon, Public Health Attorney. 2006
Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It
By Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, academics with the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. 2003
Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide To A Food And Farm Bill
By Daniel Imhoff, Executive Director of Watershed Media, award winning author and publisher. 2007
Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
Sample Web Sites: Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Educationwww.sare.org, part of USDA
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
www.sustainableagriculture.net
Includes an informative and comprehensive weekly blog on all national and state farm issues.
Union For Concerned Scientists
www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture
World Watch: Food Feature
www.worldwatch.org/programs/agriculture
News, reports and information about sustainable agriculture & related issues from an omnivore viewpoint.
Oregon Tilth
www.tilth.org
Information on organic agriculture and organic certification from a lead organization.
Vegan Organic Network
http://www.veganorganic.net/
Agriculture without using animal products - mainly European
Veganic Agriculture Network
http://www.goveganic.net/
Agriculture without using animal products - new (and smaller) North American web site
Resources for GE Foods
The World According To Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and The Control Of Our Food SupplyMarie-Monique Robin (2010). Ms Robin is a awarding winning French journalist and film maker who has undertaken a thorough investigation of the Monsanto Corporation from it's troubling past producing PCBs and Agent Orange to it's current legal and political tactics to maintain a monopoly on seeds and food production through intellectual property rights.
The Food Revolution
By John Robbins, award winning author of 6 books and founder of Earthsave International, part IV (75 page critique). 2001
Seeds of Deception
By Jeffrey Smith, Researcher and Author. 2003.
A detailed picture of evidence amassed about injustices perpetrated for huge profits.
Genetic Roulette
By Jeffrey M. Smith (2006)
Genetically modified food and potential dangers to public health.
Food Fray: Inside the Controversy over Genetically Modified Foods
By Lisa Weasel, Molecular Biologist and tenured Professor of Biology at Portland State Univ., 2009.
Dr. Weasel presents a global perspective derived from intensive research.
Northwest Rage (centered in Portland)
www.nwrage.org
Organic Consumers Association - Genetically Engineered Food
www.organicconsumers.org/gelink.cfm
News, articles & resources about GMOs.
Seeds of Deception
www.seedsofdeception.com
Genetic engineering and genetically modified foods from an opponent's perspective.
True Food Now Shoppers Guide
www.truefoodnow.org/shoppersguide
Learn about which products & brands are genetically engineered.
Fair Trade
The Fair Trade Federationwww.fairtradefederation.org
Global Exchange
www.globalexchange.org
Find out about fair trade products and resources.