Bibliography: Manifestos, Journalism, Practical Guides, Memoirs, etc.
Essays, manifestos, journalism, practical guides, and memoirs against conventional industrial food systems in one way or another, in many cases from a local or place-based perspective ("local food," "locavore," etc.)
Bendrick, Lou. 2008. Eat Where You Live: How to find and enjoy local and sustainable food no matter where you live. Seattle, WA: Skipstone.
Berry, Wendell. 1972. A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural. San Diego: Harcourt and Brace.
Berry, Wendell. 1977. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
Berry, Wendell. 2009. Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food. Berkeley: Counterpoint.
Gussow, Joan Dye. 2001. This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green.
Kingsolver, Barbara. 2007. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
Lyson, Thomas A. 2004. Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community. Medford, MA: Tufts University Press.
McWilliams, James E. 2009. Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.
Midkiff, Ken. 2004. The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply. New York: St. Martin's.
Nabhan, Gary Paul. 2002. Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods. New York: W.W. Norton.
Norberg-Hodge, Helena, Todd Merrifield, and Steven Gorelick. 2002. Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian.
Patel, Raj. 2007. Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House.
Petrini, Carlo. 2003 [2001]. The Case for Taste. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Petrini, Carlo. 2007 [2005]. Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair. New York, NY: Rizzoli.
Petrini, Carlo and Gigi Padovani. 2006 [2005]. Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Eating and Living. New York, NY: Rizzoli.
Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin.
Pollan, Michael. 2008. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. New York: Penguin.
Salatin, Joel. 2007. Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front. Swoope, VA: Polyface.
Schlosser, Eric. 2002. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. New York: Perennial (HarperCollins).
Singer, Peter and Jim Mason. 2006. The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter. [n.l.]: Rodale.
Smith, Alisa, and J.B. MacKinnon. 2007. Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally. New York: Harmony.
Weber, Karl. 2009. Food, Inc., A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It. New York: Public Affairs.
Winne, Mark. 2008. Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty. Boston, MA: Beacon.
Blogs
Pasture Raised and Grass Fed on Stony Brook Farm: http://stonybrookfarm.wordpress.com/
(Schoharie philosopher-farmer Bob Comis shares his experiences and ideas aimed at contributing to a future of farming for greater social and environmental justice.)