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Section 3: Texts

Core

  • Unit Reader
    • “Eat Less Meat: UN Climate-Change Report Calls for Change to Human Diet,” Quirin Schiermeier, Springer Nature Limited, 2019
    • “Enough with the Vertical Farm Fantasies: There Are Still Too Many Unanswered Questions about the Trendy Practice,” Stan Cox, Salon.com, LLC., 2016
    • Excerpts from The Locavore’s Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-Mile Diet, Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu, PublicAffairs, 2012
    • “Impossible Foods, Impossible Claims,” Anna Lappé, Medium, 2019
    • “Indoor Urban Farms Called Wasteful, ‘Pie in the Sky’,” Stacey Shackford, Cornell Chronicle, 2014
    • “Nourish Food System Map,” Nourish, WorldLink, 2014
    • “The Future of Food and Agriculture: Trends and Challenges,” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2017
  • Digital Access
    • “7 GMO Myths Debunked by Vandana Shiva,” Julia Kent, North Atlantic Books, January 22, 2016
    • “‘Fate of Food’ Asks: What’s for Dinner in a Hotter, Drier, More Crowded World?,” Terry Gross, Fresh Air, National Public Radio, 2019
    • “Food System Primer: The Food System,” Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University
    • “Local Food Systems,” Evan Fraser, Feeding 9 Billion, February 21, 2014
    • “The Vertical Farm: A Keystone Concept for the Ecocity,” Dickson Despommier, TEDx Warwick, April 9, 2013