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Books that you should read:

• Six Argument for a Greener Diet. Michael Jacobson. Centre for Science in the Public Interest.
  You may not be able to get this book very easily but you can buy it through their web site www.cspinet.org. This is a fantastic book which will really open your eyes to the damage being done to us and the environment by industrial scale agriculture.
• What to eat. Marion Nestle. North Point Books 2006. Professor Nestle is one the leading nutritionists in the US. She again takes on the marketing deceptions of Big Food and points us in the direction of healthy eating. It is currently available from most books stores. It is very entertaining.
• An Omnivore's Dilemma. Michael Pollan. 2006.
  In this book, Michael Pollan looks at food production through three different pathways: the intensive corn based industrial agriculture, the grass farmer and the forager. It is very enlightening.
• One with Nineveh. Anne and Paul Erhlich. 2004.
  This is the big picture of how unsustainable our current way of life has become. It is very sobering but at the same time offers many possible solutions to our problems.

Web sites:

• Grace Factory Farm Project. www.factoryfarm.org. This is an extremely informative web site about CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Organizations) which by their very nature are extremely bad for the environment and also for our health.
   
• The Meatrix. www.themeatrix.com. Two award winning short animated films available from the site which really make the point about factory farms. An absolute must. (Warning: there is a parasitic site with the same name at .org extension to be avoided.)
   
• Compassion in world farming. While this site is predominantly concerned with animal welfare, its section on sustainable agriculture is very good. Download the really fantastic report by Mark Gold called "The global benefits of eating less meat" at www.ciwf.org.uk/eatlessmeat.
   
• Sierra Club campaign against factory farms. This is a very extensive site which investigates the problems associated with type of industrialized agriculture. www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarm/

Reports that you should read:

Agriculture

• Livestock's long shadow: environmental issues and options. This is a report by the committee of the Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) initiative associated with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN. It says it all. It can be downloaded from the web at no cost by searching under its title from sites such as www.virtualcentre.org/en/library/key_pub/longshad/A0701E00.pdf
   
• The global benefits from eating less meat. As outlined above, this is a fantastic summary of how modern agricultural practice is damaging the world. Download from www.ciwf.org.uk/eatlessmeat.
   
• UK report on farming. Why Health is the Key to the Future of Food and Farming. A report to the government of the UK on farming.  Downloadable from the internet. by searching with the title of the paper.

The World

• The WWF Living planet report 2006 This is a comprehensive report on the state of the world, clearly demonstrating the alarming decline in biodiversity and our every increasing consumption of finite resources. Go to the WWF web site at www.panda.org and look under publications.

Fisheries

• The WWF  Fish dish: Exposing the unacceptable face of seafood. 2006.  This gives a very good insight into the problems faced by world fisheries. Go to the WWF web site, www.panda.org. and look in in the publications listed in the marine section.
   
• Seaweb organization. What price farmed fish: a review of the environment and social costs of farming carnivorous fish. This can be downloaded from www.seaweb.org in the section on Aquaculture feeds and resources.

Diet

• WHO Technical Report Series #916. Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases. Downloadable from the web by searching under the title.