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Laufer, Peter, 1950-
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Natural foods industry.
Food -- Labeling.
Natural foods industry -- United States.
Food -- Labeling -- United States.
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Organic : a journali...
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Organic : a journalist's quest to discover the truth behind food labeling / Peter Laufer, Ph.D.
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Laufer, Peter, 1950-
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, imprint of Globe Pequat Press, c2014.
Subjects
Natural foods industry.
Food -- Labeling.
Natural foods industry -- United States.
Food -- Labeling -- United States.
ISBN:
9780762790715 (hardback) :
0762790717 (hardback)
Description:
xii, 275 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Preface : Organic? -- Introduction : Nuts and beans -- Traitor Joe -- Branding the organic industry -- Just retired and ready to talk -- The man behind USDA organic -- Old-world organic -- Uncertified and self-certified : A sojourn to Costa Rica -- The NSA, organics -- Grandfathers of the old-world organic movement -- Us and them -- More than nuts and beans -- On the great silk road...to walnuts -- The Oregon tilth certification routine -- The corn hustler -- The Tunisian olive poet and the Hungarian corn burner -- Sic transit Italy -- My grocer agrees : We don't know beans about our beans -- My beans go home.
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"After eating some suspect 'organic' walnuts that he was shocked to find were produced in Kazakhstan, veteran journalist Peter Laufer traces the origins of items in his pantry back to the source, learning how easily we are tricked into buying 'organic' claims"--
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Hawaii State Library
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664.09 La
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Adult Nonfiction
664.09 Laufer
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Lihue Public Library
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