Selected Resources on Food Safety and Food Supply

Reference Sources

• Bender's dictionary of nutrition and food technology. Boca Raton, FL: Woodhead Pub., 2001.
  REF TX349 .B4 2001
  Provides succinct, authoritative definitions of over 5000 terms in nutrition and food technology, covering a wide range of disciplines from agriculture and horticulture, through the chemistry, physics and technology of food processing and manufacture.
• Food safety: a reference handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
  REF TX531 .R44 2000
  Provides information about both current and historical issues in food safety.
• Food alert! New York: Facts on File, 1999.
  REF RA601.5 .S28 1999
  Details the causes, dangers, and prevention of food-borne diseases, describing key food groups and contaminants, and gives many tips on handling, preparing, and storing food. Offers guidelines and checklists for safe buying at the grocery store and safe eating in restaurants.
• Food safety sourcebook. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 1999.
  REF TX531 .F5685 1999
  Subtitle: "Basic consumer health information about the safe handling of meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, fruit juices, and other food items, and facts about pesticides, drinking water, food safety overseas, and the onset, duration, and symptoms of food borne illnesses, including types of pathogenic bacteria, parasitic protozoa, worms, viruses, and natural toxins, along with the role of the consumer, the food handler, and the government in food safety; a glossary, and resources for additional help and information."

Circulating Books (alphabetical by title)

• 100,000,000 guinea pigs: dangers in everyday foods, drugs, and cosmetics. N.Y.: Arno Press, 1976,1933.
  HD9000.9 .U5 K3 1976
  In 1933 Consumers Union published 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, intending not only to report dangerous and largely unsuspected conditions affecting food, drugs, and cosmetics, but also, so far as possible, to give the consumer some measure of defense against such conditions.
• Biotechnology and the future of world agriculture. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed Books, 1989.
  S494.5 .B563 H63 1989
  Monitors the new technologies and shows that their promise is seriously compromised by political imperialism and economic monopolism.
• The botany of desire: a plant's eye view of the world. New York: Random House, 2001.
  QK46.5 .H85 P66 2001
  An account of four everyday plants and their co evolution with human society that challenges traditional views about humans and nature. The author links four fundamental human desires-sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control-with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato.
• Diet for a small planet. New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.
  TX392 .L27 1991
  Presents social and personal significance of a new way of eating with the health of the planet as well as the individual in mind. This 20th anniversary edition offers a-new philosophy on changing ourselves--and our world--by changing the way we eat.
• Dinner at the new gene café. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.
  TP248.65 .F66 L35 2001
  Subtitle: "How genetic engineering is changing what we eat, how we live, and the global politics of food."
• Engineered organisms in environmental settings: biotechnological and agricultural applications. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1996.
  QH442.6 .E54 1996
  A global summary of environmental applications of genetically engineered organisms, categorizing and describing the environmental releases and their effects.
• Fast food nation: the dark side of the all-American meal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
  GT2853 .U5 S25 2001
  Explains how the development of fast-food restaurants has led to the standardization of American culture, widespread obesity, urban sprawl and reveals the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations.
• Food, health, and identity. New York: Routledge, 1997.
  GT2853 .G7 F66 1997
  By addressing the issue of food and eating today, it considers the way in which food habits are changing, and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health risk influence choice.
• Food's frontier: the next green revolution. New York: North Point Press, 2000.
  S494.5 .I5 M365 2000
  Examines ways in which researchers are working to improve crop yields, reduce natural pests and diseases, and increase biodiversity, with greater or lesser success.
• From boarding house to bistro; the American restaurant then and now. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990.
  NOT CATALOGED
  Illustrates the growth and development of restaurant concepts across the United States from the times of original 13 states to the present.
• Genetically modified foods: debating biotechnology. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002.
  TP248.65 .F66 G458 2002
  Presents 35 articles by experts in the fields of bioscience, law, religion, public policy, and international relations on the subject of genetically modified foods.
• Good eating. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2001.
  BR115 .N87 W43 2001
  Proposes a moderate diet of "Christian vegetarianism" to reflect the anticipated, perfect kingdom of God. Arguing, "the unexamined meal is not worth eating," the author draws on the Bible, the early church fathers and modern theology to demonstrate that Christians should think carefully about the consumption of animal flesh.
• Governing food: science, safety and trade. Kingston, Ont.: Queen's University Press, 2001.
  TX537 G68 2001
  A collection of essays that address the international challenges posed by food safety and governance of the food system.
• High tech harvest: understanding genetically modified food plants. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002.
  SB123.57 .L88 2002
  Presents a layman's introduction to the basic science and applications of the genetic modification of food crops.
• Hope's edge; the next diet for a small planet. New York: Putnam, 2002.
  TX392 .L28 2002
  Far-reaching vision for social and environmental transformation that hopes to bring back the pleasure of eating while reconnecting with the earth.
• The Jungle. New York: Penguin Books, 1974.
  PS3537 .I85 J85 1985
  First published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the horrors of the slaughterhouse and the barbarous working conditions. It aroused the public to force the investigation that would lead to the passage of the pure food laws.
• Lords of the harvest: biotech, big money, and the future of food. Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 2001.
  TP248.65 .F66 C48 2001
  Describes how genetically engineered crops came to be, why they became controversial and provides an understanding of agriculture and the environmental burden imposed on Earth.
• Mad cowboy: plain truth from the cattle rancher who won't eat meat. New York: Scribner, 1998.
  TX392 .L94 1998
  Blasts through the propaganda of the beef and dairy industries (and the government agencies that often protect them) and exposes an animal-based diet as the primary cause of cancer, heart disease, and obesity in this country.
• My year of meats. New York: Viking, 1998.
  PS3565 .Z45 M99 1998
  As she films a 52-part series on wholesome American beef for Japanese television, director Jane Takagi-Little of New York realizes she is doing her viewers a disservice and sabotages the show. Part expose of unhealthy production of meat, part cross-cultural view of America.
• Pesticide alert: a guide to pesticides in fruits and vegetables. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1987.
  TX571 .P4 M67 1987
  Although federal and state agencies monitor to some extent the composition and permissible residue of pesticides in fruits and vegetables, this guide points out that regulation is often faulty and that dangerous levels of toxic substances may be consumed.
• Secret agents: the menace of emerging infections. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2002.
  RA653 .D74 2002
  The author deals in turn with insect-borne infections, diseases arising from foods, microbial resistance to drugs, influenza, various chronic ailments and bioterrorism.
• Slaughterhouse: the shocking story of greed, neglect, and inhumane treatment inside the U.S. meat industry. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997.
  TS1963 .E37 1997
  Reveals the link between unenforced slaughterhouse regulations and the increase in deaths from food borne illness in the US and interviews workers to shed light on working conditions and problems with injuries, repetitive motion disorders, and alcoholism.
• The social risks of agriculture: Americans speak out on food, farming, and the environment. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.
  HT421 .S58 2002
  Nine contributions written by university-based sociologists present and evaluate the results of research on American public opinion concerning farming, food, the environment, and other agriculturally related issues
• Welfare ranching: the subsidized destruction of the American West. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002.
  SF85.35 .W4 W45 2002
  Presents one side of the debate over public lands ranching, offering a graphic look at the negative consequences of livestock production in the arid West.

Government Documents

Use WebCat (Osterlin Library's online catalog) to access government documents. Key words such as "Food Supply", "Food Safety" "Livestock", "Sustainable Agriculture", "Grazing", etc.

Food Safety and Food Supply Websites

• FoodSafety.gov
  http://www.foodsafety.gov/
  A gateway website that provides links to selected government food safety-related information.
• Food Safety Website
  http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/foodsci/agentinfo
  This food safety information retrieval system is broken down into 10 main categories to help narrow searches for food safety information. It contains more than 600 external links to other web sites, and has over 100 web pages within the system itself.
• Institute of Food Science and Technology (UK)
  http://www.ifst.org/
  Designed for scientists, health professionals, journalists, and consumers the information has been reviewed by an independent committee of scientists and professionals. "Hot Topics" covers issues of interest like genetic modification in food, salt, trans fatty acids, and food allergies.
• Sustainable Agriculture Network
  http://www.sare.org/
  The Sustainable Agriculture Network promotes increased knowledge about practices that are economically viable, environmentally sound and socially responsible.
• Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program
  http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/
  This site from UC Davis provides leadership and support for scientific research and education in agricultural and food systems that are economically viable, conserve natural resources and biodiversity, and enhance the quality of life in the state's communities.