Michele Payn

Food Truths from Farm to Table

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Produktbeschreibung

Don't believe everything you're told about food-most of it is highly misleading or completely untrue. Written by a farm and food advocate, this book identifies marketing half-truths and guides you through the aisles of the grocery store to simplify smart food shopping and restore your freedom to enjoy food. What is the only "food" on your dinner table that does not contain hormones? How can animals raised for food also be treated with respect? Is it true that a typical serving of broccoli has more estrogen than a serving of steak? Why is more than 40 percent of food wasted in the United States? Food Truths from Farm to Table: 25 Surprising Ways to Shop & Eat without Guilt answers all of these questions and many more, bringing an unheard voice into the highly emotional food debate. Authored by Michele Payn, a leading farm and food advocate with an in-depth understanding of both sides of the plate, this intriguing book helps readers understand how food is really produced, answers food critics, and points out how food marketing and labels are often half-truths or even "less-than-half truths." These 25 food truths enable an understanding of how food is grown, providing a transparent window into today's farming and ranching practices that empowers you to make informed personal choices and determine what is right for your family. Each chapter presents a farm or ranch story, answers questions around a major issue, provides science-based information, and includes a sidebar section of food truths and myths. Readers will gain insights from a food expert who offers a viewpoint that stands in stark contrast to the typical sensationalist and often negative perspective on fashionable food-accurate information that will help you to better trust the intentions and processes in farming and ranching. The revelations in this book will simplify food shopping, reduce guilt about being a consumer, and give you the freedom to enjoy your food again.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing plc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781440849978
• ISBN-10: 1440849978
• Artikelnr.: 45345075

Autorenporträt

Michele Payn is an author and a media resource who speaks from the intersection of farm and food to bring clarity and common sense to the grocery store.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Truth in Food 25 Food Truths to Shop & Eat
without Guilt 1. Take Guilt Off Your Food List Part I: Dairy 2. Are Happy
Cows on Drugs Harming My Kids? 3. Your Milk Is Not Filled with Antibiotics
4. Animal Welfare Is 24-Hour Care 5. Are Confined Spaces Cruel? 6. Is
Organic the Utopia? Part II: Eggs 7. Animal Care, in Context 8. Pecking
Order Isn't Pretty 9. Eggstravaganza or Overwhelmed? 10. Farmers Buy Food,
Too Part III: Fruits 11. Is Your Fruit Creating an Environmental Frenzy?
12. Where Fruits Grow, Bugs Go 13. Excuse Me, There's a Cucumber in My
Papaya 14. Cutting Boards and Cross-Contamination 15. Organic Produce
Requires Pesticides? 16. Water and Family: The Lifeblood of Growing Food
Part IV: Vegetables 17. Does Eating Healthy Cost More? 18. Vegetables Make
Chemicals? 19. Freshness Is a Science 20. What's Growing in Your Veggie
Drawer? 21. A Love of Playing in the Soil Part V: Meats 22. The Mayhem of
Meat. Why Isn't Farming Like Charlotte's Web? 23. Are Antibiotics Awful?
24. Is Meat Messing with Your Hormones? 25. The Mass Production of
Education, Medication, and Food 26. Does Your Burger Damage the
Environment? 27. There Is No Singular "Right" Way to Buy or Grow Food 28.
Are You Growing Bacteria? Part VI: Bread and Baking Aisle 29. Saving Our
Soil 30. Would You Like a Loaf of Guilt with Your Bread? 31. Sugar, Salt,
and Everything Evil 32. Is Your Fat Better Than My Fat? Part VII: Cereal
Aisle 33. Pardon Me, You Dropped Intellectual Property in My Food 34. The
Demonization of the Corn Stalk 35. Is the Environment Sacrificed for
Profitability? 36. What Is Pecksniffery? Part VIII: Snacks and Convenience
Foods 37. The Reality of Convenience 38. Balancing Choice on the Plate and
the Farm 39. Cheap Food Will Cost You More Later 40. Are They Sneaky Snacks
or Are We Label Illiterate? Part IX: Deli and Foodservice 41. Whose Hands
Have Been in Your Food? 42. Just Because You Can't Pronounce It Doesn't
Mean It's Bad for You 43. We're Not Crossing Frogs and Corn 44. Everything
in Moderation 45. Checkout with Truth, Not Fear or Guilt Michele's Food
Philosophy A Note about the Remaining Aisles and Issues . . . Notes Index