Let's Eat: Sustainable Food for a Hungry Planet

by Kimberley Veness

All the food you eat, whether it's an apple or a steak or a chocolate-coated cricket, has a story. Let's Eat uncovers the secret lives of our groceries, exploring alternative―and sometimes bizarre―farm technology and touring gardens up high on corporate rooftops and down low in military-style bunkers beneath city streets. Packed with interesting and sometimes startling facts on agriculture around the world, Let's Eat reveals everything from the size of the biggest farm in the world to how many pesticides are in a single grape to which insect people prefer to eat.

48 pages, Hardcover

Published February 7, 2017

Reviews

[Vannessa Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Let’s Eat was a great read about food. We learn how fast food chains and chemical fertilizers and pesticides and commercial fishing negatively affect the environment and there’s quite a bit of information about where our food comes from. We learn how to set up small aquaponic systems and about Entomophagy. Let’s Eat is a book that adults will also enjoy reading.

[Margaret]

Whenever reflecting about the food we eat, I remember vividly becoming informed about the PBB food contamination in Michigan in the 1970s. It was years later after the initial poisoning but once I knew, I quit eating beef and drinking milk. To this day I have not eaten beef and it's only lately I have started to drink milk again. As recently as May 2016 it is still a topic of concern as evidenced by this article, 43 years after chemical mix-up, Michigan blood shows elevated toxin levels. Michigan Radio has coverage on this over the course of several years ending in 2014.


Some people zip through the grocery store without giving a thought as to what they are placing in their baskets or carts. This disaster taught me decades ago to be a careful shopper, spending more time than most looking at labels. In her debut book, Let's Eat!: Sustainable Food For A Hungry Planet (Orca Book Publishers, February 7, 2017), author Kimberley Veness explores how our food is cultivated and the journey it makes from place to place before it arrives in our kitchens and on our tables.



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