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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,961 ratings — published 2006
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,448 ratings — published 2008
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,418 ratings — published 2014
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (Volume 3) (California Studies in Food and Culture)
by (shelved 11 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,724 ratings — published 2002
Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,597 ratings — published 2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,153 ratings — published 2007
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,388 ratings — published 2009
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,836 ratings — published 2020
Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.70 — 377 ratings — published
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,914 ratings — published 1977
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,914 ratings — published 2001
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,352 ratings — published 2001
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,066 ratings — published 2024
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.37 — 918 ratings — published 2017
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.50 — 186,086 ratings — published 2013
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 299 ratings — published 2011
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,381 ratings — published 2013
Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,235 ratings — published 1971
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,622 ratings — published 2019
Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.21 — 151 ratings — published 2013
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,188 ratings — published 2000
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,625 ratings — published 2011
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (Justice, Power, and Politics)
by (shelved 4 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.35 — 414 ratings — published 2018
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,404 ratings — published 1975
What to Eat (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,984 ratings — published 2006
Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,350 ratings — published 2009
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,027 ratings — published 2006
Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 141 ratings — published
Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.78 — 137 ratings — published 2011
Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.37 — 49,251 ratings — published 2023
How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,491 ratings — published 2021
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,049 ratings — published 2019
For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.31 — 362 ratings — published
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,857 ratings — published 2019
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,517 ratings — published
The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of the World's Food Supply (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,108 ratings — published 2009
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.33 — 211 ratings — published 2019
Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups (Food, Health, and the Environment)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.01 — 186 ratings — published
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.66 — 533 ratings — published
Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability (Food, Health, and the Environment)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 178 ratings — published 2011
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.97 — 397 ratings — published 2012
A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.20 — 183 ratings — published 2017
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,460 ratings — published 2014
Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.15 — 880 ratings — published 2015
The End of Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,637 ratings — published 2008
Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,177 ratings — published 2008
Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters (One Planet)
by (shelved 2 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.33 — 18 ratings — published
The Last Supper: How to Overcome the Coming Food Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.83 — 115 ratings — published
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-systems)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,399 ratings — published 2025
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-systems)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,075 ratings — published 2010
“Nature is never the same twice; this inconsistency requires adaptability. There are limitless problems in the world. If we think like a machine we only find ourselves with the same problems. The problems are there because we haven't adapted a solution; the only way to find a solution is to think outside the machine.
This thinking is necessary to a natural food system.
There are no two vegetables that are the same, no two days of cooking that are the same, no two humans that are the same. Industrial systems give us the same ingredients every day, through all the seasons. When you put square shapes in square spaces, you don't understand the circle.
Your thinking becomes linear and you can't adapt.
When you adapt, your mind is able to make connections and find solutions to the unpredictable nature of real food.”
― Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint
This thinking is necessary to a natural food system.
There are no two vegetables that are the same, no two days of cooking that are the same, no two humans that are the same. Industrial systems give us the same ingredients every day, through all the seasons. When you put square shapes in square spaces, you don't understand the circle.
Your thinking becomes linear and you can't adapt.
When you adapt, your mind is able to make connections and find solutions to the unpredictable nature of real food.”
― Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint
“With honest ingredients, a deeper appreciation of flavor, and less distance between farm and plate, we can relearn what food truly means, for ourselves and for the Earth.”
― The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
― The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
