Richard Houser, Virginia’s most talented illustrator-painter-musician-chef-historian, saw how to make our book smile, and did it. Judy Carmichael is so much more than an office manager, we’re working on a better title: research ace, rooster wrangler, esteemed colleague, best pal, and guardian angel all come to mind. Amy Redfern organized the chaos with panache. Jim Malusa and Sonya Norman left their fingerprints on the manuscript, for the better. Terry Karten is a champion editor and our very good fortune. No words are big enough to carry our devotion to Frances Goldin, so we’ll just use little ones: we love you. Ditto for the whole office: Sam Stoloff, Ellen Geiger, Matt McGowan, Phyllis Jenkins, and Josie Schoel.
We all three thank our parents for putting tools in our hands at an early age and turning us loose on the project of making food happen. And we thank Lily for absolutely everything—plus eggs. If you think she’s a charming character in this book, you should see her walk out the front door.
—BK, SLH, CHK
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For updates and a complete list of references, see our Web site: www.animalvegetablemiracle.com.
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ORGANIZATIONS
Also see our Web site: www.animalvegetablemiracle.com.
Local Harvest
220 21st Ave.,
Santa Cruz CA 95062
www.localharvest.org
FoodRoutes
37 East Durham St., Philadelphia PA 19119
National nonprofit dedicated to reintroducing Americans to their food.
www.foodroutes.org
Slow Food International
Via Mendicità Istruita 8, 12042 Bra (CN), Italy
www.slowfood.com
20 Jay St., Suite 313, Brooklyn NY 11201
www.slowfoodusa.org
USDA Food and Nutrition Service
3101 Park Center Dr., Alexandria VA 22302
www.fns.usda.gov/fns
The Community Food Security Coalition
PO Box 209, Venice CA 90294
Dedicated to building strong, sustainable local and regional food systems.
www.foodsecurity.org
Sustainable Table
215 Lexington Ave., Suite 1001, New York NY 10016
www.sustainabletable.org
The Sierra Club National Sustainable Consumption Committee
www.truecostoffood.org
Edible Communit
ies
PMB 441, 25 NW 23rd Pl., Suite 6, Portland OR 97210-5599
www.ediblecommunities.com
The National Farm to School Network
1600 Campus Rd., Mail Stop M1, Los Angeles CA 90041
www.farmtoschool.org
Local Food Works (UK)
40–56 Victoria St., Bristol BS1 6BY, UK
www.localfoodworks.org
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FARMING
The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program Waterfront Center, Room 4462, 800 9th St. SW, Washington DC 20024
www.sare.org
National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
PO Box 3657, Fayetteville AR 72702
www.attra.org
The Land Institute
2440 E. Water Well Rd., Salina KS 67401
www.landinstitute.org
The Ecological Farming Association (EFA)
406 Main St., Suite 313, Watsonville CA 95076
Promotes ecologically sound and economically viable agriculture.
www.eco-farm.org
The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
PO Box 396, Pine Bush NY 12566
www.sustainableagriculture.net
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, Banan
a 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.