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Love, John F. McDonald’s: Behind the Arches (New York: Bantam, 1986). Love tells the story of David Wallerstein, pages 296–97.
Narayan, K. M. Venkat, et al. “Lifetime Risk for Diabetes Mellitus in the United States,” Journal of the American Medical Association 290 (2003), 1884–90.
Nestle, Marion. Food Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
Pollan, Michael. “The (Agri)cultural Contradictions of Obesity,” New York Times Magazine, October 12, 2003. This chapter extends and elaborates the argument I made in this article.
———. The Botany of Desire (New York: Random House, 2001). See the material on sweetness in the chapter on apples, as well as the bibliography on sweetness.
Rorabaugh, W. J. The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979). An eye-opening account of American drinking habits from the Revolution through the temperance movement. The book is the main source for my information on early American alcohol consumption; the quote from William Cobbett appears on page 59.
Satcher, David. “The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity,” (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001); available on the Web at www.surgeongeneral.gov.
Winson, Anthony. “Bringing Political Economy into the Debate on the Obesity Epidemic,” Agriculture and Human Values 21 (2004), 299–312.
CHAPTER 7: THE MEAL: FAST FOOD
“A Full Serving of Nutrition Facts,” pamphlet published by McDonald’s (2003).
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).
On ethanol and air pollution see Libecap, Gary D. “Environmental Phantasm: Political Forces Keep Dreams of Ethanol Alive,” Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) (June 2003); www.perc.org/publications/percreports/june2003/phantasm.php and the Web site of the Sierra Club, www.sierraclub.org.
PART II
CHAPTER 8: ALL FLESH IS GRASS
On the pastoral tradition, Leo Marx is invaluable. I learned a great deal about farming, grass, animals, and Joel Salatin from Salatin’s books, all of which are worth reading, even if you aren’t planning to raise chickens; he’s a consistently entertaining writer. Stockman Grass Farmer, Allan Nation’s monthly tabloid for grass farmers, is the indispensable media outlet for the movement.
Klinkenborg, Verlyn. Making Hay (Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 1997).
Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). The quote from Henry James is on page 352.
Pollan, Michael. “Sustaining Vision,” Gourmet (September 2002).
Salatin, Joel. Family Friendly Farming (Swoope, VA: Polyface, 2001).
———. Holy Cows & Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm Friendly Food (Swoope, VA: Polyface, 2004).
———. Pastured Poultry Profit$: Net $25,000 in 6 Months on 20 Acres (Swoope, VA: Polyface, 1996).
———. Polyface Farm (video: Moonstar Films, www.moonstarfilms.com, undated).
———. $alad Bar Beef (Swoope, VA: Polyface, 1995).
———. You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start and $ucceed in a Farming Enterprise (Swoope, VA: Polyface, 1998).
Virgil. Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid 1–6, Volume 1. Trans. H. Rushton Fairclough (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986).
Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973).
CHAPTER 9: BIG ORGANIC
Parts of this chapter are based on an article on the industrialization of organic food I published in the New York Times Magazine (May 13, 2001). Among the sources in the organic movement who have done the most to educate me are: Joan Gussow; Fred Kirschenmann at the Leopold Center at Iowa State (www.leopold.iastate.edu); Bob Scowcroft at the Organic Farming Research Foundation; Michael Sligh and Hope Shand at ETC (www.etcgroup.org); the late Betsy Lydon; farmer and author Eliot Coleman; farmer Woody Derycks; farmers Tom and Denesse Willy; farmer Warren Weber; farmer and author Michael Ableman; Drew and Myra Goodman and Mark Merino at Earthbound Farm; George Siemens at Organic