Food Matters: A Bedford Spotlight Reader

About this Book
	Cover Page
	Inside Front Cover
	Halftitle Page
	The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series Editorial Board
	Title Page
	Copyright Page
	About The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series
	Preface for Instructors
	Bedford/St. Martin’s Puts You First
	Contents
	Contents by Discipline
	Contents by Theme
	Contents by Rhetorical Purpose
Introduction for Students
Chapter 1 What Is the Purpose of Food?
	Eat Food: Food Defined
	Why the Fries Taste Good
	Her Chee-to Heart
	Eating Made Simple
	The Pleasures of Eating
	Eating the Hyphen
	Are You Really Appreciating the Apple?
Chapter 2 What Forces Affect Our Food Choices?
	Nutritional Guidelines
	Why Shame Won’t Stop Obesity
	How Junk Food Can End Obesity
	Why So Many Rich Kids Come to Enjoy the Taste of Healthier Foods
	The Hidden Resilience of “Food Desert” Neighborhoods
	Liver and Opinions: Why We Eat What We Eat and Despise the Rest
	Why I’ve Never Learned How to Cook
	I’m a Black Food Writer. Here’s Why We Need More Like Me
Chapter 3 What Does It Mean to Eat Ethically?
	The Changing Significance of Food
	You Can’t Run Away on Harvest Day
	The Only Way to Have a Cow
	Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
	Industrial Farming Is One of the Worst Crimes in History
	The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals
	Stop the Rot
Chapter 4 How Does Our Food System Contribute to the Climate Crisis?
	Can We Feed the World and Sustain the Planet?
	Grocery Stores Are Packed with Plastic. Some Are Changing
	Can a Climate Conscious Diet Include Meat or Dairy?
	The Biography of a Plant-Based Burger: One Man’s Mission to Make Meat Obsolete
	How to Cook a Planet
	Heartland
	The Least Deadly Catch: Ocean Farming in the Climate Change Era
	How One Tribe Is Fighting for Their Food Culture in the Face of Climate Change
Chapter 5 What Is the Future of Food?
	Will Organic Food Fail to Feed the World?
	Attention Whole Foods Shoppers
	We Need Better Answers on Nutrition
	Hardship on Mexico’s Farms, a Bounty for U.S. Tables
	Biotechnology Isn’t the Key to Feeding the World
	Recycling Energy
	The Future of Farming Is Looking Up
Sentence Guides for Academic Writers
Acknowledgments
Index of Authors and Titles
Inside Back Cover
Back Cover