America's food : what you don't know about what you eat /

We don't think much about how food gets to our tables, or what had to happen to fill our supermarket's produce section with perfectly round red tomatoes and its meat counter with slabs of beautifully marbled steak. We don't realize that the meat in one fast-food hamburger may come fro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blatt, Harvey (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Food industry and trade > Health aspects > United States.
Agriculture > Environmental aspects > United States.
Agriculture > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Safety.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Food Science.
Agriculture > Environmental aspects
Food industry and trade > Health aspects
United States
ENVIRONMENT/General
ENVIRONMENT/Food Studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Old Mcdonald has no farm: he dies, she dies, sold
  • Soil character and plant growth: nature's magic
  • Grain farming: the basic crop
  • Organic food: as nature intended
  • Genetically modified food: food fights among adults
  • Chicken, eggs, turkey, and duck: fowl weather
  • Cattle, milk, swine, and sheep: raising cholesterol
  • Seafood: the killing fields
  • Fruits and vegetables: plants to cherish
  • Food processing: what is this stuff we are eating
  • Eating poorly and too much: poor health and body bloat.

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