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  1. Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
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    Resource Type: Organization
  2. The End of Food: The coming Crisis in the World Food Industry
    Resource Type: Book
    Paul Robert's in his book The End of Food scrutinizes the food industry, documenting our eating patterns, the global economy which supports it and the ethics behind it. He maintains that the quanttity and quallity of food that we take for granted in the West can't last much longer. The dream of plenty is in fact a nithmare as it denies the nature of food as seasonal, squashable and unpredictable and in the long run unsustainable and destructive. He advances the theory that food production is run by monopolistic companies interested in the suppression of individuality and free choice.
  3. Fast Food Nation
    The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    According to Schlosser, fast food has hastened the malling of the American landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad.
  4. Food for Thought Symposium Attracts World Renowned Experts
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    alPHa Promoting Child Health by Advocating A Ban on Commercial Advertising of Food and Beverages Targeted to Children. Positive Benefits of Physical Activity Highlighted at Launch of 2009 Great Waterfront Trail Adventure.
  5. Food Industry -- Profits
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    A talk given by David Robertson on the relationship between corporate interest and the food industry.
  6. IFJ Condemns Attempts by Embattled Food Company to Censor Free Speech in US
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned as "unforgiveable censorship" attempts by the US fruit company, Dole Food, to prevent the release of a documentary film Bananas which exposes threats to the health of banana plantations
  7. KPMG Management Services LP
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  8. Nutrition Experts and Information in the Sources Directory
    Resource Type: Website
  9. Organic Trade Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  10. The Politics of Food and Poverty
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The global food crisis is tightly connected to global poverty, climate change, ecological destruction, migrant workers, imperialism, health and the super-exploitation of workers.
  11. The Real Cost of a Cheap Burger
    Fastfood Workers Go Hungry: Is that the American Dream?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    America’s fastfood outlets are not restaurants but food systems serviced by cheap labour in de-skilled jobs — employees so badly paid that they need state aid and charity. They went on strike in North Carolina last summer.
  12. Refreshments Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  13. The Supermarket Tour
    A Handbook for Education and Action

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A handbook for action on food issues in Canada which guides people through the store and gives summaries of many of the products on the shelves.
  14. This Is Why Carrots Cost More Than Twinkies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    An examination of the role of Government-subsidized crop insurance, farm loans, tax credits, agricultural research and education, as well as environmental and public-health exemptions for farming, on the cost of food production and how that transfers to the consumer.
  15. Unnatural Harvest
    How Corporate Science is Secretly Altering Our Food

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999

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