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- Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The End of Food: The coming Crisis in the World Food Industry
Resource Type: Book Paul Robert's in his book The End of Food scrutinizes the food industry, documenting our eating patterns, the global economy which supports it and the ethics behind it. He maintains that the quanttity and quallity of food that we take for granted in the West can't last much longer. The dream of plenty is in fact a nithmare as it denies the nature of food as seasonal, squashable and unpredictable and in the long run unsustainable and destructive. He advances the theory that food production is run by monopolistic companies interested in the suppression of individuality and free choice.
- Fast Food Nation
The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 According to Schlosser, fast food has hastened the malling of the American landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad.
- Food for Thought Symposium Attracts World Renowned Experts
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 alPHa Promoting Child Health by Advocating A Ban on Commercial Advertising of Food and Beverages Targeted to Children. Positive Benefits of Physical Activity Highlighted at Launch of 2009 Great Waterfront Trail Adventure.
- Food Industry -- Profits
Resource Type: Article Published: 1977 A talk given by David Robertson on the relationship between corporate interest and the food industry.
- IFJ Condemns Attempts by Embattled Food Company to Censor Free Speech in US
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned as "unforgiveable censorship" attempts by the US fruit company, Dole Food, to prevent the release of a documentary film Bananas which exposes threats to the health of banana plantations
- KPMG Management Services LP
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Nutrition Experts and Information in the Sources Directory
Resource Type: Website
- Organic Trade Association
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Politics of Food and Poverty
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The global food crisis is tightly connected to global poverty, climate change, ecological destruction, migrant workers, imperialism, health and the super-exploitation of workers.
- The Real Cost of a Cheap Burger
Fastfood Workers Go Hungry: Is that the American Dream? Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Americas fastfood outlets are not restaurants but food systems serviced by cheap labour in de-skilled jobs employees so badly paid that they need state aid and charity. They went on strike in North Carolina last summer.
- Refreshments Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Supermarket Tour
A Handbook for Education and Action Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 A handbook for action on food issues in Canada which guides people through the store and gives summaries of many of the products on the shelves.
- This Is Why Carrots Cost More Than Twinkies
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 An examination of the role of Government-subsidized crop insurance, farm loans, tax credits, agricultural research and education, as well as environmental and public-health exemptions for farming, on the cost of food production and how that transfers to the consumer.
- Unnatural Harvest
How Corporate Science is Secretly Altering Our Food Resource Type: Book Published: 1999
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