The Organic Food Handbook: A Consumer's Guide to Buying and Eating Organic Food - Softcover

Roseboro, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442971649 ISBN 13: 9781442971646

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

Synopsis

More and more people are eating organic food. Once derided as a hippie fad, today organic is the fastest growing segment of the United States food industry with consumer demand increasing by nearly 20 percent each year. No longer confined to natural food stores, organic food is now on supermarket shelves, served in restaurants and fast food chains, and even sold at national parks and major league baseball stadiums. Many schools and colleges, such as Yale and Stanford, now serve organic food to their students. People are choosing organic because they want a healthier and safer alternative to ''conventional'' food with its use of toxic pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, and genetic engineering. The Organic Food Handbook examines this important trend and provides a concise, simple guide to eating and buying organic food.

About this title

About the Author

Roseboro has written extensively about GE and organic foods for natural food industry publications, including Natural Foods Merchandiser, Organic Processing, The Organic Report, Natural Products Industry Insider, Cooperative Grocer, and others. He has also given presentations about GE foods and their impact on organic at tradeshows and conferences. Roseboro is also a certification committee member with an Iowa-based organic certification organization, as well as a member of the board of directors of the Iowa Organic Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442971649
• ISBN 13: 9781442971646
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172