PANUPS Resource Pointer #379 How Safe is the Industrial Food Supply?

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Resource Pointer #379 How Safe is the Industrial Food Supply?
February 25, 2005

For copies of the following resources, please contact the appropriate
publishers or organizations directly.

*Bad Taste: The Disturbing Truth about the World Health Organization's
Endorsement of Food Irradiation, 2002* Public Citizen and Global
Resource Action Center for the Environment. Examines the implications
of a WHO declaration that food "treated" with ionizing radiation is
safe for human consumption. Considers whether the agency's decision
has corrupted the integrity of its analysis of the safety and
wholesomeness of irradiated foods. 43 pages. Available as a free
download at http://www.citizen.org/cmep/ or
http://www.gracelinks.org/nuke/food/ Contact Public Citizen, 1600 20th
Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009; phone (202) 588-1000; email:
mailto:member@citizen.org.

*Diet for a Dead Planet, 2004* Christopher Cook. Argues that our
conventional food system has contributed to a staggering array of
social, economic, and environmental epidemics. Corporate control of
farms and supermarkets combined with ineffective regulation and
misplaced export subsidies have produced an unhealthy and
unsustainable harvest. The author applauds the movement for organics,
farmers‚ markets, and slow food and argues that a transformation of
the U.S. food system is imperative. 326 pages. $24.95. Contact The New
Press, 38 Greene Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013; phone (800)
233-4830; fax (212) 629-8617; website http://www.thenewpress.com/

*Food, Inc: Corporate concentration from farmer to consumer, 2003*
Bill Vorley. Examines the impacts of the growing concentration of
corporations who trade, process, manufacture and sell agricultural
goods. The report also points to policies that can ensure more
equitable trading relationships and provides options for re-balancing
the markets. 89 pages. Available as a free download at
http://www.ukfg.org.uk/ Contact UK Food Group, PO Box 100, London, SE1
7RT; phone (44 20) 7523-2369; fax (44 20) 7620-0719; email:
mailto:ukfg@ukfg.org.uk.

*Not on the Label, 2004* Felicity Lawrence. Looks at some of the most
popular foods and the process they have gone through to end up on the
table. Considers how beef waste ends up in chicken, why a third of
apples are thrown away, and why bread is full of air and water.
Examines the social, environmental, and economic consequences of the
global industrial system of food production and the negative health
consequences for the buying public. 272 pages. £7.99. Contact Penguin
Direct, Pearson Customer Operations, Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Essex,
CM20 2JE; fax 0870 850-1115 (for UK orders only); website
http://www.penguin.co.uk/ email mailto:orders@penguin.co.uk.

*Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism, 2003* Marion
Nestle. Argues that century-old laws for ensuring food safety no
longer protect our food and that ensuring a safe food supply involves
politics. Demonstrates that powerful food industries oppose safety
regulations, deny accountability, and blame consumers when something
goes wrong. Safe food requires government and industry to act in the
public interest, and consumers to exert democratic rights as citizens.
350 pages. $27.50. Contact California-Princeton Fulfilment Services,
1445 Lower Ferry Road, Ewing, NJ 08618; phone (800) 777-4726; fax
(800) 999-1958; website http://www.ucpress.edu/ email
mailto:orders@cpfsinc.com.

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