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The Eco-Foods Guide: What's Good for the Earth is Good for You! Paperback – October 1, 2002

by Cynthia Barstow (Author), Frances Moore Lappe (Foreword)
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We are what we eat, as the saying goes. So it follows that if we want to be healthy, we should buy healthy foods. And for foods to be healthy, the earth they grow in also needs to be in good health. This might seem like Ecology 101, but it’s what many supermarket shoppers are grappling with nowadays as they try to decide what to feed the family.

The Eco-Foods Guide is a lively conversation with consumers that takes the gloom out of our grocery choices and empowers shoppers to vote with their food dollars for the environment and for a safe future for their grandchildren. Frankenfoods and more have made food shopping so frightening and complex that the result has often been paralysis or denial. But in this optimistic and even humorous jaunt through the topic, sustainable agriculture expert Cynthia Barstow encourages readers to walk away bubbling with opportunities to buy what’s best—most of the time—and to even engage with the many others working to effect change in agriculture.

In a straightforward style, The Eco-Foods Guide ex-amines the downside: pesticides and growth hormones, biotechnology and processed foods, manufacturing concentration and animal husbandry, and the overuse of nonrenewable resources. At the same time, it highlights alternatives and solutions, including:

• Eating seasonally

• Buying local

• Reforming school cafeteria menus

• Shopping at farmer’s markets

• Eating at Chef’s Collaborative restaurants

• Supporting labeling, organic, and IPM production methods

• Regarding our food again as sacred

Cynthia Barstow is adjunct faculty at the University of Massachusetts and an environmental/sustainable agriculture marketing consultant and speaker. Previously VP of marketing for a $3 billion Manhattan restaurant, her clients have included the World Wildlife Fund and the University of Wisconsin Madison "Protected Harvest" eco-label program.

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    288 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    New Society Publishers
  4. Publication date
    October 1, 2002
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0865714606
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0865714601
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Society Publishers; Twenty-Eighth edition (October 1, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0865714606
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0865714601
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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  • William R. Truran
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource for why and how to do good food buying
    Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2003
    Barstow's Eco-Foods is a well-thought out book that focuses on: local, organic, seasonal qualities of the food we should eat. The book is easy reading and optimistic, full of pro-active and productive actions we could take. Eco-foods brings in a thorough historical background of important topics. While I consider myself well-read and informed on modern food issues, Cynthia enlightened me on subjects such as genetic drift, genetically modified, terminator technology, labeling, salmon waste, pouring rights, and more. The book flows with a compendium of who's who in the field (like Rachel Carson, Frances Moore Lappe, Thomas Berry, and many more), listing of relevant websites in an easy to see manner, shopping tips, brief vignettes on subjects that are discussed. I will use Eco-Foods as a resource for my good foods purchases.
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  • Elizabeth E. Mott
    5.0 out of 5 stars Keep it in a handy place
    Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2003
    The Eco-Foods Guide is an indispensable resource for the consumer who wants to go beyond reading labels and really delve into the truth about where our food comes from. Cynthia Barstow's conversational style is readable and down to earth--she answers the questions that loom in our heads as we make choices at the grocery store. She discusses the issues of buying organic vs. non organic, the benefits of buying locally, and she de-mysifies GMO's and what role they play in our food. Barstow also inlcludes helpful websites for futher purusing. As a mother of a two year old, I am grateful for this accessible guide--keep in a handy place!
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