The Rodale Institute Farming Resources 611 Siegfriedale Rd., Kutztown PA 19530-9749
www.newfarm.org
Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming (UK) 94 White Lion St., London N1 9PF, UK
www.sustainweb.org
The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture PO Box 1882, Soquel CA 95073
www.permaculture.com
Organic Farming Research Foundation PO Box 440, Santa Cruz CA 95061
www.ofrf.org
City Farmer--Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture Box 74567, Kitsilano RPO, Vancouver, BC V6K 4P4, Canada www.cityfarmer.org
American Community Gardening Association 1777 East Broad St., Columbus OH 43203
www.communitygarden.org
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
The U.S. Department of Agriculture 1400 Independence Ave. SW, Washington DC 20250
www.usda.gov
The National Agricultural Statistics Service 1400 Independence Ave. SW, Washington DC 20250
www.nass.usda.gov
USDA Economic Research Service 1800 M St. NW, Washington DC 20036-5831
www.ers.usda.gov
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville MD 20857-0001
www.fda.gov
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy www.fao.org
National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation 1111 South Mason St., Fort Collins CO 80521-4500 Conserves genetic resources of crops and animals important to U.S. agriculture.
www.ars-grin.gov/ncgrp/index.htm
The National Agricultural Library (NAL) Abraham Lincoln Building, 10301 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville MD 20705-2351
www.nal.usda.gov
FOOD POLICY, CONSUMER AND ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) Public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability.
6771 South Silver Hill Dr., Finland MN 55603
www.organicconsumers.org
GrassRoots Action Center for the Environment The GRACE Factory Farm Project 215 Lexington Ave., Suite 1001, New York NY 10016
www.factoryfarm.org
The Center for Food Safety
660 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, #302, Washington DC 20003
Challenging harmful food production and promoting sustainable alternatives.
www.centerforfoodsafety.org
CropChoice
PO Box 33811, Washington DC 20033
Alternative news and information source for American farmers and consumers.
www.cropchoice.com
The Food Trust
1201 Chestnut St., 4th Fl., Philadelphia PA 19107
Works to increase access to affordable and nutritious food.
www.thefoodtrust.org
American Society for Nutrition 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L-4500, Bethesda MD 20814
www.nutrition.org
Pesticide Action Network North America 49 Powell St., Suite 500, San Francisco CA 94102
www.panna.org
Union of Concerned Scientists
2 Brattle Sq., Cambridge MA 02238-9105
www.ucsusa.org
International Food Policy Research Institute 2033 K St. NW, Washington DC 20006-1002
www.ifpri.org
The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First 398 60th St., Oakland CA 94618
www.foodfirst.org
The True Food Network
2601 Mission St., Suite 803, San Francisco CA 94110
Dedicated to stopping the genetic engineering of our food.
www.truefoodnow.org
SIDEBAR RESOURCES
Other Web sources are included in the sidebars. More comprehensive resources can be found on our Web site: www.animalvegetablemiracle.com.
OILY FOOD
David Pimentel, Marcia Pimentel, and Marianne Karpenstein-Machan, "Energy Use in Agriculture: An Overview," dspace.library.cornell.edu/ bitstream/1813/118/3/Energy.PDF.
Richard Manning, "The Oil We Eat," Harper's Magazine, February 2004, www.harpers.org/TheOilWeEat.html.
U.S. Energy Information Administration: www.eia.doe.gov/.
HUNGRY WORLD
Thalif Deen, "Tied Aid Strangling Nations, Says U.N.," Inter Press Service News Agency 2004, www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=24509.
Celia W. Dugger, "Supermarket Giants Crush Central American Farmers," New York Times, December 28, 2004, www.organicconsumers.org/corp/walmartca122804.cfm.
Sophia Murphy and Kathy McAfee, U.S. Food Aid: Time to Get It Right, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: Trade and Global Governance Program, July 2005, www.tradeobservatory.org/library.cfm?refid =73512.
Vandana Shiva, "Force-Feeding GMOs to the Poor," www.organiccon sumers.org/ge/poor.cfm.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): www.fao.org.
Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology: www.psrast.org/nowohu.htm.
"Tied Aid--Promoting Donors' Self-Interest," South Bulletin 57, www.southcentre.org/info/southbulletin/bulletin57/bulletin57-08.htm.
HOW TO FIND A FARMER
New Generation Cooperatives on the Northern Plains, "Declining Farm Value Share of the Food Dollar," www.umanitoba.ca/afs/agric_eco nomics/ardi/farm_value.html.
Missouri Farmers Union: missourifarmersunion.org/coop/ffcenter/about.htm.
THE STRANGE CASE OF PERCY SCHMEISER
Gregory M. Lamb, "When Genetically Modified Plants Go Wild," Christian Science Monitor, August 31, 2006, www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_1992.cfm.
E. Ann Clark, "On the Implications of the Schmeiser Decision," University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, May 2001, www.biotech-info.net/ implications.html.
Ron Friesen, "Studies Show Gene Flow in GM Canola Likely Widespread," Manitoba Co-operator, July 4, 2002, www.percyschmeiser.com/Gene%20Flow.htm.
"Schmeiser Decision Causes Uproar Around the World," CNW (Canada), May 21, 2004, www.mindfully.org/GE/2004/Schmeiser-Uproar-World 21may04.htm.
www.percyschmeiser.com.
THE GLOBAL EQUATION
Brian Halweil, "Why No One Wins in the Global Food Fight," Washington Post Sunday, September 21, 2003, www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/ wp-dyn/A37770-2003Sep19.
John Otis, "Ruled by Fear, Banana Workers Resist Unions," Houston Chronicle, January 19, 2004, www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/04/leftbehind/2095828.html.
USDA Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research Service, Office for Small-Scale Agriculture, www.sfc.ucdavis.edu/pubs/bro chures/Specialtypotatoes.html.
IS BIGGER REALLY BETTER?
Gerard D'Souza and John Ikerd, "Small Farms and Sustainable Development: Is Small More Sustainable?" Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 28 (1996): 73-83.
Peter M. Rosset, The Multiple Functions and Benefits of Small Farm Agriculture In the Context of Global Trade Negotiations, Institute for Food and Development Policy Brief no. 4, September 1999, www.foodfirst.org/node/246.
Ronald C. Wimberley et al., Food from Our Changing World: The Globalization of Food and How Americans Feel About It, 2004, sasw.chass.ncsu.edu/global-food/foodglobal.html.
The National Family Farm Coalition: www.nffc.net/.
THE PRICE OF LIFE
"Press Release: Consumer Reports Finds 71 Percent of Store-Bought Chicken Contains Harmful Bacteria," Consumer's Union, February 23, 1998, www.consumersunion.org/food/chickbacny698.htm.
Economic and Structural Relationships in U.S. Hog Production, AER-818 Economic Research Service/USDA, www.ers.usda.gov/publications/ aer818/aer818d.pdf.
PAYING THE PRICE OF LOW PRICES
Christopher D. Cook, "Thanksgiving's Hidden Costs," AlterNet, November 23, 2004, www.alternet.org/envirohealth/20556/.
K. Delate, M. Duffy, C. Chase, A. Holste, H. Friedrich, and N. Wantata, "An Economic Comparison of Organic and Conventional Grain Crops in a Long-Term Agroecological Research (LTAR) Site in Iowa," Ame
rican Journal of Alternative Agriculture 18 (2002): 59-69.
Y. O. Ogini, D. P. Stonehouse, and E. A. Clark, "Comparison of Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms in Ontario," American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 14 (1999): 122-28.
D. Pimentel, "Environmental and Economic Costs of Pesticide Use," Bioscience 42 (1992): 750-60.
D. Pimentel, "Environmental and Economic Costs of Soil Erosion and Conservation Benefits," Science 267 (1995): 1117-23.
D. Pimentel, P. Hepperly, J. Hanson, D. Douds, and R. Seidel, "Environmental, Energetic, and Economic Comparisons of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems," Bioscience 55 (2005): 573-82.
Brian Riedl, "Still at the Federal Trough: Farm Subsidies for the Rich and Famous Shattered Records in 2001," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #1542, www.heritage.org/Research/Agriculture/BG1542.cfm.
J. D. Smolik, T. L. Dobbs, and D. H. Rickert, "The Relative Sustainability of Alternative, Conventional, and Reduced-till Farming Systems," American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 16 (1995): 25-35.
The Rural Coalition, "Brief Background and History of the US Farm Bill: 1949 to Present," www.ruralco.org/library/admin/uploadedfiles/Farm bill_History.doc.
USDA Economic Research Service: www.ers.usda.gov/Features/farmbill/ titles/titleIcommodities.htm#a.
SPEAKING UP
The Food Project: www.thefoodproject.org/.
National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: attra.ncat.org/.
The Community Food Security Coalition: www.foodsecurity.org/.
LOSING THE BUG ARMS RACE
Robert G. Bellinger, Pest Resistance to Pesticides, Southern Region Pesticide Impact Assessment Program Report 1996, entweb.clemson.edu/ pesticid/Issues/pestrest.pdf.
Pesticide Action Network, carcinogenic pesticide list: www.panna.org/ resources/pestis/PESTIS.burst.357.html.
Weed Science Society of America, list of herbicide-resistant weeds: www.weedscience.org.
HOME GROWN
Travis Beck and Martin F. Quigley, Edible Landscaping, Ohio State University Extension Factsheet HYG-1255-02, ohioline.osu.edu/ hyg-fact/1000/1255.html.
Ben Sharvy, Edible Landscaping & Gardening, www.efn.org/~bsharvy/ edible.html.
Ron Scherer, "Farmers Markets Boom Across the USA," Christian Science Monitor, August 29, 2001, www.organicconsumers.org/Organic/FarmersMarket901.cfm.
Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, Your Consumer Food Dollar: How Does It Carve Up? www.cias.wisc.edu/foodshed/pubsntools/ meal2.htm.
SUSTAINING THE UNSUSTAINABLE
Douglass Cassel Jr., "The Great Trade Robbery," Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, May 16, 2002.
Jim Goodman, "Bush Team Squeezes Farmers Stifles Dissent," Capital Times (Madison, WI), February 26, 2006, www.familyfarmdefenders.org/pmwiki.php/Main/BushTeamSqueezesFarmersStiflesDissent.
Anuradha Mittal, Giving Away the Farm: The 2002 Farm Bill, www.food first.org/pubs/backgrdrs/2002/s02v8n3.html.
Environmental Working Group, Bumper Crop: Concentration of Commodity Loan Subsidies, www.ewg.org/reports/bumpercrop/concentra tion.html.
National Family Farm Coalition, Food from Family Farms Act: A Proposal for the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill, www.nffc.net/resources/factsheets/Food%20From%20Family%20Farms%20Act.pdf.
Union of Concerned Scientists, Industrial Agriculture: Features and Policy, www.ucsusa.org/food_and_environment/sustainable_food/ industrial-agriculture-features-and-policy.html.
Why Family Farmers Need Help, www.farmaid.org/site/PageServer? pagename=info_facts_help.
REALLY, WE'RE NOT MAD
Charles Abbott, "Meatpacker Sues US for Right to Do Mad Cow Tests," Reuters, March 24, 2006, https://www.tradeobservatory.org/showFile.php?RefID=78811.
Libby Quaid, "Government to Scale Back Mad Cow Testing," Associated Press, March 15, 2006, www.tradeobservatory.org/showFile.php?Ref ID=78811.
Sabin Russell, "USDA Lacks Power to Inform Public, Mandate Returns," San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 2004, https://www.organiccon sumers.org/madcow/recall1604.cfm.
"Mad Cow Watch Goes Blind," USA Today, August 4, 2006, www.usa today.com/printedition/news/20060804/edit04.art.htm.
United States Government Accountability Office, "USDA and FDA Need to Better Ensure Prompt and Complete Recalls of Potentially Unsafe Food," GAO-05-51, October 2004, www.gao.gov/new.items/ d0551.pdf.
"DIG! DIG! DIG! AND YOUR MUSCLES WILL GROW BIG"
Abiola Adeyemi, Urban Agriculture: An Abbreviated List of References & Resource Guide 2000, National Agricultural Library, www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/AFSIC_pubs/urbanag.htm.
Rachel Moscovich, "Grow Your Own, Big City," 4/19/2006, www.zerofootprint.net/green_stories/green_stories_item.asp?type_=50&ID=5019.
William Thomas, "Victory Gardens Can Save Us Again," Convergence Weekly, April 28, 2005, www.willthomas.net/Convergence/Weekly/Gardens.htm.
Online Magazine of Metropolitan Agriculture: www.metrofarm.com/.
TRADING FAIR AND SQUARE
Russell Greenberg, Peter Bichier, Andrea Cruz Angon, and Robert Reitsma, "Bird Populations in Shade and Sun Coffee Plantations in Central Guatemala," Conservation Biology 11, no. 2 (1997): 448-59.
Russell Greenberg, Peter Bichier, and John Sterling, "Bird Populations in Rustic and Planted Shade Coffee Plantations of Eastern Chiapas, Mexico," Biotropica 29, no. 4 (1997): 501-14.
Adriana Valencia, Birds and Beans: The Changing Face of Coffee Production, World Resources Institute, May 2001, earthtrends.wri.org/ features/view_feature.php?theme=7&fid=35.
Global network of fair trade organizations: www.ifat.org/.
For more on migratory birds and coffee, visit: nationalzoo.si.edu/Conser vationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/Coffee/.
LEGISLATING LOCAL
Community Food Security Coalition, Farm to Cafeteria in 2006: Helping Farmers, Kids, and Communities, www.foodsecurity.org/policy.html #F2C.
The National Farm to School Network: www.farmtoschool.org/ and www.farmtocollege.org/.
How Local Farmers and School Food Service Buyers Are Building Alliances, www.ams.usda.gov/tmd/MSB/PDFpubList/localfarmsandschool.pdf. Small Farms/School Meals Initiative: www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Lunch/Downloadable/small.pdf.
The National Association of Farmers' Market Nutrition Programs: www.nafmnp.org/.
About the Authors
BARBARA KINGSOLVER's twelve books of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction include the novels The Bean Trees and The Poisonwood Bible. Translated into nineteen languages, her work has won a devoted worldwide readership and many awards, including the National Humanities Medal.
STEVEN L. HOPP teaches environmental studies at Emory and Henry College and conducts research in bioacoustics and the natural history of vireos.
CAMILLE KINGSOLVER attends Duke University, where she studies biology, anatomy, and dance, and teaches yoga.
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By the Same Author
FICTION
Prodigal Summer
The Poisonwood Bible
Pigs in Heaven
Animal Dreams
Homeland and Other Stories The Bean Trees
ESSAYS
Small Wonder
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never POETRY
Another America
NONFICTION
Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands (with photographs by Annie Griffiths Belt) Holding the Line:
Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
Credits
Jacket design by PAOLA ECHAVARRIA
In the front cover photograph by STEVEN L. HOPP,
Lily is holding Christmas lima beans, an heirloom variety included in the Slow Food of USA Ark of Taste.
Copyright
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