Changing the Way We Think to Change the Way We Eat
References & Resources
“Men educated in it [critical thinking] cannot be stampeded by stump orators...it makes good citizens.”
-- William Graham Sumner, Yale academic, 1906
Melinda Hemmelgarn, M.S., R.D., Food Sleuth®, LLC foodsleuth@gmail.com 573.449.3720
1. Advertising and Marketing.
- Advertising Age. Advertising strategies and spending: www.adage.com
- Berkeley Media Studies Group: www.bmsg.org/
- National Education Policy Center. "Effectively Embedded: Schools and the Machinery of Modern Marketing;"
http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/Schoolhouse-commercialism-2010; and “Educational Cost of Schoolhouse
commercialism:” http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/schoolhouse-commercialism-2011
- “We’re Not Buying It:” Protecting children from junk food marketing.
http://preventioninstitute.org/focus-areas/supporting-healthy-food-a-activity/supporting-healthy-food-and-activityenvironments-advocacy.html
2. Advocacy.
- “Top 10 Rules for Advocacy,” American Public Health Association:
www.apha.org/NR/rdonlyres/B333E66A-5E83-408B-9871-9808EFAA209D/0/TopTenRulesofAdvocacy.pdf
3. Agriculture.
- Agriculture at a Crossroads. U.N. International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science & Technology for
Development. www.agassessment.org/index.cfm?Page=IAASTD%20Reports&ItemID=2713;
http://www.globalagriculture.org/
- Agricultural Justice Project. Creates universal social standards for sustainable and organic agriculture.
www.agriculturaljusticeproject.org/
- CAFO: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories, Dan Imhoff.
www.cafothebook.org/
- Center for a Livable Future. (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health) Connects agriculture and public health. Links to
Pew Commission report on industrial agriculture. www.jhsph.edu/clf; http://aphg.jhsph.edu/
- "Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill", Daniel Imhoff.
www.watershedmedia.org/foodfight_overview.html
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: www.iatp.org
- Union of Concerned Scientists: www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/
- United Farm Workers. Founded by Cesar Chavez; advocates for fair wages; safe work conditions. www.ufw.org
- United Nations. Report on Agroecological farming (organic) and its ability to feed the world.
www.srfood.org/index.php/en/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1174-report-agroecology-and-the-right-to-food
4. Art as an activist tool.
- Americans Who Tell the Truth. Robert Shetterley's tribute to American Heroes. www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/
- Beehive Collective: http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/front.htm
- Enduring Image: http://enduring-image.blogspot.com/
- The Food Museum: http://www.foodmuseum.com/
- The Graphic Imperative: Posters for Peace, Social Justice and the Environment. www.thegraphicimperative.org/
- Green Patriot Posters: Campaign posters to protect the environment. www.greenpatriotposters.org
- Lexicon of Sustainability. Pop-up Art Shows: http://www.lexiconofsustainability.com/pop-up-art-shows/
- Menjivar, Mark. Photographer, Refrigerator "portraits," "You Are What You Eat." http://markmenjivar.com
- PhotoVoice. Participatory photography and digital storytelling gives voice to marginalized communities. Tool for
advocacy and positive social change. www.photovoice.org/
- "What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets." Portraits and essays of 80 individuals and the food that fuels them over the
course of a single day. Also see "Material World," "Hungry Planet," and "Man Eats Bugs."
http://www.menzelphoto.com/books/wie.php
5. Biodiversity.
- ALARM: Environmental risk assessment, includes chemicals, loss of biodiversity and pollinators, and climate change:
www.alarmproject.net/alarm/
- Center for Biological Diversity: www.biologicaldiversity.org
- “Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity.” Harvard Medical School. Center for Health and the
Global Environment. http://chge.med.harvard.edu/programs/bio/index.html
6. Children’s health and well-being.
- CDC Prevalence of Autism: http://www.cdc.gov/NCBDDD/autism/data.html
- Center for Media and Child Health. www.cmch.tv
- Institute for Humane Education. http://humaneeducation.org/home
- Kids Count Data Book, Annie E. Casey Foundation. Measures children’s well-being:: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/
- "Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder," Louv, R. Algonguin Books 2008.
http://richardlouv.com/
7. Climate change.
- Climate Change Denial and Information Network. Psychology of climate change denial. www.ClimateDenial.org
See video describing how to speak about climate change.
- Take a Bite Out of Climate Change. Small Planet Institute: http://www.takeabite.cc/
See: Diet for a Hot Planet, Anna Lappe.
-“The Wheel of Life: Food, Climate, Human Rights, and the Economy,” Center for Food Safety:
http://www.boell.org/downloads/TheWheelofLife_Barker_website.pdf
8. Conflicts of Interest and Corporate Accountability.
- Corporate Accountability International. Challenges corporate abuse and control of food; features “corporate hall of
shame” and "Value the Meal" campaign. www.stopcorporateabuse.org
- Corporations and Health Watch: Tracks effects of corporate practices on public health. Hunter College, City University
of New York. www.corporationsandhealth.org
- Government Accountability Project: Investigative arm of Congress and congressional watchdog: www.gao.gov/; see
whistleblower stories and Food Integrity Project: http://www.whistleblower.org/
- "Partnerships between health organizations and the food industry risk derailing public health nutrition," Freedhoff, Y.
and Hebert, P. Can.Med. Assoc. J. Jan. 31, 2011. www.cmaj.ca/cgi/rapidp
df/cmaj.110085v1?ijkey=f78130ae03f9549e7652b3d4f4ade9b380e22a7d&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
- "Relationship between Funding Source and Conclusion among Nutrition-Related Scientific Articles," Lesser, L. et al.
PLOS Medicine, January 2007. www.plosmedicine.org
9. Critical Thinking.
- The Art of Powerful Questions: Catalyzing Insight, Innovation and Action.
www.theworldcafe.com/pdfs/aopq.pdf
- “The Death of Why? The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy,” Andrea Batista Schlesinger. BerrettKoehler Publishers, Inc. 2009
- Foundation for Critical Thinking. Learn how to recognize bias and propaganda. www.criticalthinking.org
10. Endocrine Disruption.
- The Endocrine Disruption Exchange / www.endocrinedisruption.com
A nonprofit organization that compiles and disseminates the scientific evidence on the health and environmental
problems caused by exposure to endocrine disruptors, chemicals that interfere with development and function.
- Our Stolen Future: Endocrine disruption and environmental contaminants. www.ourstolenfuture.org/
11. Environmental and Ecological issues.
- “Accounting for Nature’s Benefits: The Dollar Value of Ecosystem Services,” Holzman, D. Environmental Health
Perspectives, April, 2012:
http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action;jsessionid=A5B54007B66F7D4DC1388B53848478B9?articleURI=inf
o%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.120-a152
- Container Recycling Institute. Statistics, education and activism: http://container-recycling.org/
- Environmental Commons. Environmental issues and policies. http://environmentalcommons.org/index.html
- Environmental Health Perspectives. Research and news on the environment on human health. Published by the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. www.ehponline.org/
- Environmental toxins linked to autism: http://www.vchca.org/docs/public-health/autism_editorial_final.pdf?sfvrsn=0
- Environmental Working Group: www.ewg.org/
- Green America: Economic action for a just planet. www.greenamericatoday.org/
- "Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment," Steingraber, S. Da Capo
Press, 2010. www.livingdownstream.com
- President's Cancer Panel Report: "Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now."
http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/annualReports/pcp08-09rpt/PCP_Report_08-09_508.pdf
- The Product Policy Institute. Promotes Zero-Waste Society through Extended Producer Responsibility.
www.productpolicy.org/
- The Science & Environmental Health Network. True Cost Clearinghouse documents economic, health, and social costs
of pollution, worker exposures, and resource exploitation, and benefits of precautionary policies. www.sehn.org/
12. FairTrade/ Labor:
- Equal Exchange: Fair trade; cooperative food systems. www.equalexchange.coop/index.php
- Fair Food: Farm to Table. Three-part multimedia presentation on U.S. farm workers with extensive resources for
promoting a more socially just food system. www.fairfoodproject.org/main/
- “Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry. Southern Poverty Law Center.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/injustice-on-our-plates
- International Labor Rights Forum. Advocates for just and humane treatment for workers worldwide:
www.laborrights.org/
- Transfair: http://transfairusa.org/
13. Food.
- Center for Food Safety. True Food Network. www.centerforfoodsafety.org/
- Consolidation of the food system. Howard, Philip. Michigan State U. https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal,” E. Schlosser. Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
- Food Day. National campaign to “eat real,” and change the way Americans think about food. Supports healthy,
affordable food grown in a sustainable, humane way. Observed on or near October 24. www.foodday.org
- Food Safety News: http://www.foodsafetynews.com
- Food Sovereignty: Grassroots International. Food for Thought and Action Curriculum. www.grassrootsonline.org
- Food and Water Watch. http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
- “The Prince’s Speech On the Future of Food,” www.onthefutureoffood.org
- Slow Food USA. www.slowfoodusa.org
14. Food Sleuth Radio: http://kopn.org/ (Click on Food Sleuth): Helps listeners connect the dots between the food we
love, the health we treasure, and the agriculture which influences both.
Also available on Public Radio Exchange: www.prx.org/series/32432-food-sleuth-radio
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kopn-food-sleuth/id330698483
15. Food Waste.
- "American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and what we can do about it," Bloom, J..
www.wastedfood.com/
- “The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and its Environmental Impact,” Kevin Hall, et. al. PLoS ONE,
November 2009. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0007940
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Food waste reduction and Food Recovery Challenge.
www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/organics/food/index.htm;
www.epa.gov/epawaste/partnerships/wastewise/challenge/foodrecovery/index.htm
16. Gardening.
- Kitchen Gardeners International. http://kgi.org/
- Victory Gardens: http://www.victorygardenoftomorrow.com/posters.html
17. GMO:
- "The Genetic Engineering of Food and the Failure of Science – Part 1: The Development of a Flawed Enterprise,"
Lotter, D., Int. J. Soc. Ag. & Food 16(1): 31-49, 2009. www.ijsaf.org/contents/16-1/lotter1/index.html
*Part 2: Academic Capitalism and the Loss of Scientific Integrity:" www.ijsaf.org/contents/16-1/lotter2/index.html
- “Impacts of genetically engineered crops on pesticide use in the U.S. – the first sixteen years,” Benbrook, C.,
Environmental Sciences Europe, 2012, 24:24. Published Sept. 28, 2012.
www.enveurope.com/content/24/1/24/abstract Open Access.
- Just Label It. National effort to label foods with GMO ingredients. http://justlabelit.org/
- “Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically-modified maize,” Seralini et. al., Food
and Chemical Toxicology, Sept. 19, 2012.
- “Reasons for Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods,” Michael Hansen, Ph.D., Consumers Union.
http://www.consumersunion.org/pdf/AMA-GE-resolutions-3-19-12.pdf
- “Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds,” Claire Hope Cummings, Beacon Press, 2008.
- The World According to Monsanto: http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=105
18. Green trends and Greenwash.
- Federal Trade Commission. Greenguides http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/10/greenguides.shtm
- Greener Choices: Consumers’ Union. See: “From Fables to Labels:” http://www.greenerchoices.org/eco-labels/
- The Hartman Group. Tracks consumer culture and trends; green and sustainability marketing reports. Info graphics.
http://www.hartman-group.com/
- “Is Your Eco-Label Lying?” http://motherjones.com/files/Mother-Jones-ecolabel-guide.pdf
- Six Sins of Greenwashing: www.terrachoice.com/files/6_sins.pdf
19. Health and Health Care.
- Healthcare Without Harm. www.noharm.org/
- Social Determinants of Public Health. World Health Organization. www.who.int/social_determinants/en/
20. Hunger and Food Security.
- Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger. Addresses why people are hungry. www.feedingminds.org
- Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy. Analyzes root causes of global hunger, poverty, and
ecological degradation. See: "Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice," Eric Holt-Gimenez and Raj Patel.
Food First Books, 2009. www.foodfirst.org
- Sweet Charity: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement, Janet Poppendieck, Viking Press, 1998. Reviewed by
J.Larry Brown in Public Health Reports, July/August 1999.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1308500/pdf/pubhealthrep00026-0091.pdf
- World Hunger Year. Finding answers for hunger and poverty. www.whyhunger.org/index.php
21. Media Advocacy, Education and Literacy
- Candy Bar images: http://www.thinkingfountain.org/c/crosssection/crosssection.html
- Free Press. Promotes media reform, independent media, and universal access. www.freepress.net
- Media Education Foundation. www.mediaed.org
- Media that Matters: Good Food. Short films on food and sustainability. www.mediathatmattersfest.org/watch/goodfood/
22. Obesity:
- “Obesogens: An Environmental Link to Obesity,” Holtcamp, W., Feb. 2012.
http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.120-a62
- Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University. www.yaleruddcenter.org/
23.
Organic.
- eOrganic. Webinars and resources supporting organic food and farming. See: “Why Eat Organic,” Jim Riddle,
http://www.extension.org/pages/61954/why-eat-organic-webinar
- Midwest Organic and Sustainble Education Service (MOSES). Organic farming resources. www.mosesorganic.org/
- “Organic Agriculture Can Feed the World,” Barry Estabrook, The Atlantic, Dec. 5, 2011
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/12/organic-can-feed-the-world/249348/
- “Organic Diets Significantly Lower Children's Dietary Exposure to Organophosphorus Pesticides," Environmental Health
Perspectives, February 2006. http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2005/8418/8418.html
- Organic Farming Research Foundation. Education, research and policy advocacy: www.ofrf.org
- Organic Valley. "Beyond the Plate" www.organicvalley.coop/community/beyond-the-plate/archives0/
- Rodale Institute: Organic research and the "organic green revolution." www.rodaleinstitute.org/
- USDA National Organic Program:: 202-720-3252; www.ams.usda.gov/nop
24. Pesticides:
- Beyond Pesticides. Information for personal protection and policy change. www.beyondpesticides.org/
- Pesticide Action Network. See: "What's On My Food?" www.panna.org
- Silent Spring." Rachel Carson (1962). A Sense of Wonder (film) www.asenseofwonderfilm.com/
- Silent Spring Institute. www.silentspring.org
- “The War on Bugs,” W. Allen. History of industrial agriculture’s pesticide promotion. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.
25. Plastics.
Understanding plastic pollution: http://www.5gyres.org/?mid=57
26. Sustainability.
- The Lexicon of Sustainability: words to change the world. http://www.lexiconofsustainability.com/
- Principles of a Healthy, Sustainable Food System. The American Planning Association, American Dietetic Association,
and American Nurses Association. www.planning.org/nationalcenters/health/foodprinciples.htm
- Real Food Challenge: http://realfoodchallenge.org/launch-challenge/materials; student-led campaign for just and
sustainable food.
- The Story of Stuff: 20 minute video questions our consuming culture/ promotes sustainability. www.storyofstuff.com/
- Sustainable Table: See the Eat Well Guide to find sustainable local food. www.sustainabletable.org/
“Better a cruel truth, than a comfortable delusion.” – Edward Abbey
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