More Books Like Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

If you have enjoyed reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Kingsolver's reminder that we are what we eat, try some of the following titles.


 
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Safran Foer explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits--from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth--and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.  His advice is to eat only locally grown food and animals.

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.
Pollan takes a clear-eyed look at what science does and does not know about the links between diet and health, particularly the chemicals in our food.  He proposes a new way to think about the question of what to eat that is informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach.  His advice is "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food."

 Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Schlosser charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the way America thinks about what it eats, including the little-known world of chemically engineered flavorings, both natural and artificial that we put into our bodies.

Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter
Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm. This could be you!

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