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,” American 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.
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Why Family Farmers Need Help, www.farmaid.org/site/PageServer? pagename=info_facts_help.
REALLY, WE’RE NOT MAD
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Libby Quaid, “Government to Scale Back Mad Cow Testing,” Associated Press, March 15, 2006, www.tradeobservatory.org/showFile.php?Ref ID=78811.
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“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.
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TRADING FAIR AND SQUARE
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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.
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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.
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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
ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE. Copyright © 2007 by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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