Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry is Killing Us by Christopher D. Cook, from New Press, ISBN 1565848640. As Mad Cow disease hits hard in the United States and bird flu rolls through the Asian poultry markets, the issue of food safety has never been more stark. Cook's riveting and timely investigation takes us beyond Fast Food Nation to explain why our entire food system is in crisis and argue that there is another way: sales of organic food nearly tripled to $13 billion in 2001-2002. Farmers' markets and food cooperatives are burgeoning across the nation and the slow food and food justice movements have become part of the mainstream.
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