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About The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series
Preface for Instructors
Contents by Discipline
Contents by Theme
Contents by Rhetorical Purpose
Chapter 1: What Is the Purpose of Food?
Michael Pollan, Eat Food: Food Defined
Eric Schlosser, Why the Fries Taste Good
Jill McCorkle, Her Chee-to Heart
Marion Nestle, Eating Made Simple
Wendell Berry, The Pleasures of Eating
Lily Wong, Eating the Hyphen
*Samin Nosrat, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Chapter 2: What Forces Affect Our Food Choices?
United States Government, Nutritional Guidelines
Dhruv Khullar, Why Shame Won’t Stop Obesity
Joe Pinsker, Why So Many Rich Kids Come to Enjoy the Taste of Healthier Foods
Barry Yeoman, The Hidden Resilience of “Food Desert” Neighborhoods
Taffy Brodresser-Akner, Why I’ve Never Learned How to Cook
Stephen Satterfield, I’m a Black Food Writer. Here’s Why We Need More Like Me
Thich Nhat Hanh and Lilian Cheung, Are You Really Appreciating the Apple?
*U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Dietary Intakes Compared to Recommendations: Percent of the U.S. Population Ages 1 and Older Who Are Below and At or Above Each Dietary Goal
*David Freedman, Science Says Everything You Know about Food, Diet, and Drugs Is Wrong
Chapter 3: What Does It Mean to Eat Ethically on a Changing Planet?
Barbara Kingsolver, You Can’t Run Away on Harvest Day
Bill McKibben, The Only Way to Have a Cow
Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele, Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
Yuval Noah Harari, Industrial Farming Is One of the Worst Crimes in History
Blake Hurst, The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals
Jonathan A. Foley, Can We Feed the World and Sustain the Planet?
Georgina Gustin, Can a Climate Conscious Diet Include Meat or Dairy?
Bren Smith, The Least Deadly Catch: Ocean Farming in the Climate Change Era
*Katherine Wu, The Sriracha Shortage Is a Very Bad Sign
Chapter 4: What Is the Importance of Food Justice?
*Ligaya Mishan, The Activists Working to Remake the Food System
Richard Marosi, Hardship on Mexico’s Farms, a Bounty for U.S. Tables
*Bennet Goldstein, Queering the Family Farm: Meet the LGBTQ Midwest Farmers Taking Food Justice Into Their Own Hands
*Katelyn Yee, Black-led Food Co-ops Restore Justice Hope, and Power
*Psyche Williams-Forson, In “Trouble” With(out) Culture: Food Shaming and African-American Foodways
*Leilani Marie Labong, Envisioning Indigenous Food Sovereignty as “a Whole Ecosystem”
*S.E. Smith, Disabled People Carry Bigger Food Access Burdens
*Lela Nargi, Hungry Seniors Need More Than Just Access to Food
Chapter 5: What Is the Future of Food?
Joon Yun, David Kessler, and Dan Glickman, We Need Better Answers on Nutrition
Frances Moore Lappé, Biotechnology Isn’t the Key to Feeding the World
Selina Wang, The Future of Farming is Looking Up
David Biello, Will Organic Food Fail to Feed the World?
*Bob Brody, Why I Eat Smarter Now That I’m Older
*Jamaal Lemon, Come Hell or High Water - Oysters, Brewing, and How the Come Yahs & Bin Yahs Could End Sea Level Rise in Charleston
*Alex Beggs, What Dinner Will Look Like in the Next 100 Years, According to Scientists (and Sci-Fi Authors)
*Chidinma Iwu, What Nigeria Can Teach the U.S. About Food Insecurity
*Chad Frischmann and Mamta Mehra, Massively Reducing Food Waste Could Feed the World
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