The Organic Food Handbook: A Consumer's Guide to Buying And Eating Organic Food
Автор:Ken Roseboro Год: 2007 Издание:Basic Health Publications Страниц: 96 ISBN: 1591201594 More and more people are eating organic food. Once derided as a hippie fad, today organic is the fastest growing segment of the United States food industry with consumer demand increasing by nearly 20 percent a year. No longer confined to natural food stores, organic food is now on supermarket shelves, served in restaurants and fast food chains, and even sold at national parks and major league baseball stadiums. Many schools and colleges, such as Yale and stanford, now serve organic food to their students. People are choosing organic because they want a healthier and safer alternative to "conventional" food with its use of toxic pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, and genetic engineering. "The Orgnaic Food Handbook" examines this important trend and provides a concise, simple guide to eating and buying organic food. "The Orgnaic Food Handbook" covers: What organic food is, and how it is produced; How conventional food poses threats to human health and environment; Why organic is a...
