Food Matters: A Bedford Spotlight Reader

Food Matters Explores Questions About The Seemingly Simple Concept Of Food: What Is The Purpose Of Food: Sustenance, Pleasure, Health? What Political, Social, And Cultural Forces Affect Our Food Choices? What Does It Mean To Eat Ethically? How Does Our Food System Contribute To The Climate Crisis, And How Can We Make Changes In Our Eating Habits And In Food Production To Protect The Planet? What Problems And Possibilities Will Influence What The Future Of Food? Readings By A Range Of Essayists, Scientists, Journalists, Farmers, Activists, And Ordinary Citizens Take Up These Questions And More. Questions And Assignments For Each Selection Provide A Range Of Activities For Students. The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series Is An Exciting Line Of Single-theme Readers, Each Reflecting Bedford's Trademark Care And Quality. An Editorial Board Of A Dozen Compositionists At Schools With Courses Focusing On Specific Themes Assists In The Development Of The Series. Each Reader Collects Thoughtfully Chosen Selections Sufficient For An Entire Writing Course--about 35 Pieces--to Allow Instructors To Provide Carefully Developed, High-quality Instruction At An Affordable Price. Bedford Spotlight Readers Are Designed To Help Students From All Majors Make Sustained Inquiries From Multiple Perspectives, Opening Up Topics Such As Gender, Happiness, Intelligence, Language, Music, Science And Technology, Subcultures, And Sustainability To Critical Analysis. The Readers Are Flexibly Arranged In Thematic Chapters, With Each Chapter Focusing In Depth On A Different Facet Of The Central Topic. Instructor Support At Macmillanlearning.com Includes Sample Syllabi And Additional Teaching Resources. About this Book Cover Page Inside Front Cover Halftitle Page The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series Editorial Board Title Page Copyright Page About The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series Preface for Instructors Bedford/St. Martin’s Puts You First Contents Contents by Discipline Contents by Theme Contents by Rhetorical Purpose Introduction for Students Chapter 1 What Is the Purpose of Food? Eat Food: Food Defined Why the Fries Taste Good Her Chee-to Heart Eating Made Simple The Pleasures of Eating Eating the Hyphen Are You Really Appreciating the Apple? Chapter 2 What Forces Affect Our Food Choices? Nutritional Guidelines Why Shame Won’t Stop Obesity How Junk Food Can End Obesity Why So Many Rich Kids Come to Enjoy the Taste of Healthier Foods The Hidden Resilience of “Food Desert” Neighborhoods Liver and Opinions: Why We Eat What We Eat and Despise the Rest Why I’ve Never Learned How to Cook I’m a Black Food Writer. Here’s Why We Need More Like Me Chapter 3 What Does It Mean to Eat Ethically? The Changing Significance of Food You Can’t Run Away on Harvest Day The Only Way to Have a Cow Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear Industrial Farming Is One of the Worst Crimes in History The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals Stop the Rot Chapter 4 How Does Our Food System Contribute to the Climate Crisis? Can We Feed the World and Sustain the Planet? Grocery Stores Are Packed with Plastic. Some Are Changing Can a Climate Conscious Diet Include Meat or Dairy? The Biography of a Plant-Based Burger: One Man’s Mission to Make Meat Obsolete How to Cook a Planet Heartland The Least Deadly Catch: Ocean Farming in the Climate Change Era How One Tribe Is Fighting for Their Food Culture in the Face of Climate Change Chapter 5 What Is the Future of Food? Will Organic Food Fail to Feed the World? Attention Whole Foods Shoppers We Need Better Answers on Nutrition Hardship on Mexico’s Farms, a Bounty for U.S. Tables Biotechnology Isn’t the Key to Feeding the World Recycling Energy The Future of Farming Is Looking Up Sentence Guides for Academic Writers Acknowledgments Index of Authors and Titles Inside Back Cover Back Cover