More and more people are eating organic food. Once derided as a hippie fad, today organic is the fastest growing segment of the United States food industry with consumer demand increasing by nearly 20 percent a year. No longer confined to natural food stores, organic food is now on supermarket shelves, served in restaurants and fast food chains, and even sold at national parks and major league baseball stadiums. Many schools and colleges, such as Yale and stanford, now serve organic food to their students. People are choosing organic because they want a healthier and safer alternative to "conventional" food with its use of toxic pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, and genetic engineering. "The Orgnaic Food Handbook" examines this important trend and provides a concise, simple guide to eating and buying organic food. "The Orgnaic Food Handbook" covers: What organic food is, and how it is produced; How conventional food poses threats to human health and environment; Why organic is a healthier, safer choice for you and your family; How organic certification ensures that organic food is produced to the highest standards; The high costs of conventional foods that are hidden in the subsidies we are supporting; Where to buy organic food at the most economical prices; Research showing how organic food benefits personal healh and the environment; Understanding how eating organic contributes to a more sustainable world. As this book shows, organic food clearly benefits our personal health as well as the health of our environment. eating organic contributes to a more sustainable world and a healthier future. Author Ken Roseboro provides the information we need to make eating healthy, organic foods a priority in our lives.
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Ken Roseboro is editor and publisher of "The Non-GMO Report" a monthly newsletter focusing on the risks of genetically engineered food, and is the author of "Genetically Altered Foods and Your Health." Roseboro has written articles about GE and organic foods for "Natural Foods Merchandising", "Organic Processing," "The Organic Report," "Natural Products Industry Insider," and "Cooperative Grocer."
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This review is from: The Organic Food Handbook: A Consumer's Guide to Buying and Eating Organic Food (Paperback)
This is a nice overview to the organic food market, but buyers beware. The industrial organic market has co-opted the organic movement, complete with all the trappings of industrial agriculture. The organic market today is less about enhancing soils and more about enhancing sales, less about farm and farm worker safety, health and economics than about bottom line, profit margins and myth-making. I suggest you take the points made in this book and do your own research. What mega-corporations own yoru favorite organic brand? Local trumps Big Organic every time. I am a small scale organic farmer who cannot afford the high cost of organic certification, but invite my customers to learn and participate in organic growing through my CSA. We debate the morality and myth-making of industrial organic, especially as it appears in your supermarket, regularly. Know your farmer - buy (or grow) local.
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Learn about the organic food industry in one afternoon by reading this book!!!!,
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"Ken Roseboro's "The Organic Food Handbook" has simplified the world of organic food and agriculture, making it quick and convenient for anyone to gain a new level of knowledge about organics in just one afternoon. Ken's book is the best "Organic food 101" that I have read to date--it is jam packed with vital information for everyone, from students to CEO's. I made lot's of notes and plan on keeping it on my desk to use as a valued resource."
Coral Rose, President, Eco-Innovations Sustainable Textiles Sustainability Consulting
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Elementary to intermediate education on Organic.,
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It is very informative and is good to introduce or extend limited knowledge of Organics. I'm always looking for more in depth details about organics to add to my current level of knowledge. This book is a good intro for a friend or family member to get them started on their path to understanding why organic food is so important.
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