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To Buy or Not to Buy Organic: What You Need to Know to Choose the Healthiest, Safest, Most Earth-Friendly Food Annotated Edition
Author(s): Cindy Burke (Author)
- Publisher: Balance
- Publication Date: March 2, 2007
- Edition: Annotated
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 1569242682
- ISBN-13: 9781569242681
Book Description
Food journalist and former professional chef Cindy Burke writes in the introduction to this book: “Organic food can be so expensive and difficult to find that I always wondered if I was spending my money wisely. I decided to become informed, really informed, about the options organic, conventional, local, sustainable so that I could choose the healthiest, safest food available.” To Buy or Not to Buy Organic is the result of Burke’s investigations. It tells you how to choose the healthiest, safest, most earth-friendly food, as you make your way through the supermarket, your local farmer’s market, or your natural foods store. Highlights include: Making sense of the choices presented by organic, local, sustainable, minimally treated, grass-fed and cage-free foods Reducing your exposure to pesticides Save money by knowing the foods you want to eat only if they’re organic and the foods that are pesticide-free even when they are nonorganic Protecting your child’s health from pesticides An at-a-glance shopper’s guide to more than 100 foods
Editorial Reviews
Review
“A slim, handy guide to how our food is produced and how to choose what to buy.” — Culinate.com, 6/8/07
I’ve been hesitant to question the organic label because it offers such an easy answer, and I’ve worried that if I begin to tug on that string, pretty soon my whole natural fiber sweater will be unraveled and I won’t have a dominant food doctrine to blindly follow…Burke, who is a journalist and former chef, seeks to answer that question by delving into the politics behind the certified organic label and by defining terms, such as organic, local, sustainable and grass-fed. —
Liz Kohman, “The Versatile Vegetarian: Got questions about ‘organic’? Book offers answers”, The Courier NewsAbout the Author
Cindy Burke is the coauthor, with Kim Severson (now the New York Times‘s high-profile food reporter), of The Trans-Fat Solution. She writes often about food, organic farming, and nutrition for numerous publications. She studied at the school for American Chefs in Northern California’s Napa Valley, before working as a chef and food consultant. She lives with her family in Seattle, Washington.
