Let's Eat: Sustainable Food for a Hungry Planet

All the food you eat, whether it's an apple or a steak or a chocolate-coated cricket, has a story.

Let's Eat uncovers the secret lives of our groceries, exploring alternative—and sometimes bizarre—farm technology and touring gardens up high on corporate rooftops and down low in military-style bunkers beneath city streets. Packed with interesting and sometimes startling facts on agriculture around the world, Let's Eat reveals everything from the size of the biggest farm in the world to how many pesticides are in a single grape to which insect people prefer to eat.

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Let's Eat: Sustainable Food for a Hungry Planet

All the food you eat, whether it's an apple or a steak or a chocolate-coated cricket, has a story.

Let's Eat uncovers the secret lives of our groceries, exploring alternative—and sometimes bizarre—farm technology and touring gardens up high on corporate rooftops and down low in military-style bunkers beneath city streets. Packed with interesting and sometimes startling facts on agriculture around the world, Let's Eat reveals everything from the size of the biggest farm in the world to how many pesticides are in a single grape to which insect people prefer to eat.

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Let's Eat: Sustainable Food for a Hungry Planet

Let's Eat: Sustainable Food for a Hungry Planet

by Kimberley Veness
Let's Eat: Sustainable Food for a Hungry Planet

Let's Eat: Sustainable Food for a Hungry Planet

by Kimberley Veness

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Overview

All the food you eat, whether it's an apple or a steak or a chocolate-coated cricket, has a story.

Let's Eat uncovers the secret lives of our groceries, exploring alternative—and sometimes bizarre—farm technology and touring gardens up high on corporate rooftops and down low in military-style bunkers beneath city streets. Packed with interesting and sometimes startling facts on agriculture around the world, Let's Eat reveals everything from the size of the biggest farm in the world to how many pesticides are in a single grape to which insect people prefer to eat.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781459809413
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Publication date: 02/07/2017
Series: Orca Footprints Series , #10
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 48
Lexile: NC1210L (what's this?)
File size: 4 MB
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Kimberley Veness is a freelance writer and editor who lives in Sooke, British Columbia, with her family.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Let's Eat!
  • A Veggie Marathon
  • In Excess We Trust
  • Full Circle
  • Our Daily Meat
  • Cheap Now, Costly Later
  • Aquaculture: A Fish for Everyone
Chapter Two: Small is Beautiful
  • What’s Your Food Really Saying?
  • On the Homestead
  • Work It
  • New Roots
  • Permaculture
  • The “No-Till” Zone
  • Rice-Duck Farming
  • Organic or Bust
  • Pasteurized vs. Raw
  • From Farm to Market
Chapter Three: Urban Foodscapes
  • Do You Live in a Food Desert?
  • Gardening Together
  • Food Forests
  • Commercial Urban Farms
  • Urban Homesteading
  • Food Truck Fever
Chapter Four: A Farm for the Future
  • Dinner’s in the Fish Tank
  • Insects…Yum!
  • Green Eggs and Jellyfish
  • Lab Burger, Anyone?
  • Milk: Beyond the Cereal Bowl
  • Revolutionary Rice?
  • Bee Biz
  • Farming in Space!
  • Bringing It Back to the Table
Resources
Acknowledgments
Glossary
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