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Gobbledy-Go

hay-making

history of

holons of

killing chickens

as labor-intensive

meals eaten at

pigs

production of

rabbits

Raken House

rotational grazing

self-sufficient

stacking system of

trust in

turkeys

woodlot

polyols

polyphenols

Porcini, Paulie

Pordomingo, Anibal

Porter, Michael

potassium

Price, Weston

processing plant

liberating food from nature

mill

processed foods

protein

corn converted to

cows eating cows

grass converted to

soy converted to

supplements in cattle feed

protons

rabbits, on Polyface Farm

Raccoon River, pollution of

Rachels, James

rachis

rats:

food selection by

as omnivores

research on appetites of

Regan, Tom

Retzloff, Marg

Richard (property owner)

Robinson, Jo

Rodale, J. I.

Rorabaugh, W. J.

Rosie (chicken)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rozin, Paul

Rumensin

Russell, Jim

Sahagún, Friar

Salatin, Art

Salatin, Daniel

Salatin, Frederick

Salatin, Joel:

in alternative food chain

books written by

family background of

on government interventions

as grass farmer

on industrial organic

and local markets

natural systems of

and rotational grazing

self-sufficiency of

and sustainability

see also Polyface Farm

Salatin, Rachel

Salatin, William

salt flats

Salvador, Ricardo

Sand County Almanac, A (Leopold)

Santa Cruz Island

science, reductionist

Scully, Matthew

seeds, patented

Shainsky, Allen

Sheridan, Philip

Shiva, Vandana

Sinclair, Upton

Singer, Peter

Slow Food movement

Small Planet Foods

Smil, Vaclav

soft drinks

Soil and Health, The (Howard)

Soil Conservation Service

sorbital

soufflé, chocolate

Soviet Union, food chain in

soybeans:

planting

prices of

processed foods from

research on

Squanto

Stamets, Paul

steer number

author’s purchase of

death of

early days of

and fast food

steer number

in the feedlot

Gar Precision 1680 as father of

as link in food chain

number 9534 as mother of

weaned

weight gain of

Stockman Grass Farmer,

stomata

Stonyfield Farm

sucrose

sugar

sugarcane

sun:

converted to food

energy from

and photosynthesis

supplanted in food chain

superbugs, antibiotic-resistant

supermarket

bar codes in

biodiversity in

food prices in

organic food sold in

SKU (stock-keeping units) in

Supermarket Pastoral

supersizing

sweeteners

Swift & Company

Tanimura & Antle

Tassinello, Anthony

TBHQ (tertiary butylhydroquinone)

teosinte

Thoreau, Henry David

thrifty gene

Tolstoy, Leo

transfats

transgenes

TreeTop apple pieces

turkeys, on Polyface Farm

Tylosin

Tyson, Don

Tyson foods

usufruct

vegetarianism

Voisin, André

Walden (Thoreau)

Wallace, Henry

Wallerstein, David

Warman, Arturo

wasabi

Washington, George

Wasson, Gordon

Waters, Alice

water table, pollution of

Weil, Andrew

Weston A. Price Foundation

wheat, in new world

wheat people, Europeans as

whiskey

Whole Earth Catalog,

Whole Foods supermarkets

author’s shopping in

and industrial organic

and organic movement

prices in

Supermarkets Pastoral style

Williams, Joy

Wilson, E. O.

Wisconsin glacier

Wise, Steven M.

World War I, poison gas in

xanthan gum

yeast, wild

YieldGard gene

Zea mays, see corn

Zyklon B

*I’m drawing on the excellent account of the invention of agricultural commodities in William Cronon’s Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991).

* See Manning (2004).

* In 2005 McDonald’s announced it would begin printing nutrition information on its packaging.

* Grimmway Farms owns Cal-Organic, one of the most ubiquitous organic brands in the supermarket.

1. Asami, et al (2003); Benbrook (2005); Carbonaro (2001); Davis, et al (2004).

2. Altieri (1995); Tilman (1998).

3. Altieri (1995, 1999); Tilman (1998); Wolfe (2000).

4. Diamond (2005).

* After Arthur Harvey, a Maine blueberry farmer, won a 2003 lawsuit forcing the USDA to obey the language of the 1990 law, lobbyists working for the Organic Trade Association managed