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    A Bone to Pick: The Good and Bad News About Food, With Wisdom and Advice on Diets, Food Safety, Gmos, Farming, and More
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    A Bone to Pick: The Good and Bad News About Food, With Wisdom and Advice on Diets, Food Safety, Gmos, Farming, and More
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    A Bone to Pick: The Good and Bad News About Food, With Wisdom and Advice on Diets, Food Safety, Gmos, Farming, and More
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    A Bone to Pick: The Good and Bad News About Food, With Wisdom and Advice on Diets, Food Safety, Gmos, Farming, and More

    Written by Mark Bittman

    Narrated by Robert Fass

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    About this audiobook

    Since his New York Times op-ed column debuted in 2011, Mark Bittman has emerged as one of our most impassioned and opinionated observers of the food landscape. The Times' only dedicated opinion columnist covering the food beat, Bittman routinely makes readers think twice about how the food we eat is produced, distributed, and cooked, and shines a bright light on the profound impact that diet-both good and bad-can have on our health and that of the planet.

    In A Bone to Pick, Mark's most memorable and thought-provoking columns are compiled into a single volume for the first time. As abundant and safe as the American food supply appears to be, the state of our health reveals the presence of staggering deficiencies in both the system that produces food and the forces that regulate it. Bittman leaves no issue unexamined; agricultural practices, government legislation, fad diets, and corporate greed all come under scrutiny and show that the issues governing what ends up in our market basket and on our tables are both complex and often deliberately confusing. Unabashedly opinionated and invariably thought provoking, Bittman's columns have helped readers decipher arcane policy, unpack scientific studies, and deflate affronts to common sense when it comes to determining what "eating well" truly means. As urgent as the situation is, Mark contends that we can be optimistic about the future of our food and its impact on our health, as slow-food movements, better school-lunch programs, and even "healthy fast food" become part of the norm.

    At once inspiring, enraging, and enlightening, A Bone to Pick is an essential resource for every reader eager to understand not only the complexities inherent in the American food system, but also the many opportunities that exist to improve it.

    Editor's Note

    SXSW 2019…

    Beloved food writer Mark Bittman will be discussing “Localizing Food to Restore Human Health” as a featured speaker at SXSW this year. Read his collection of thought-provoking columns from The New York Times about the health impacts of our current food production. A guide to what it really means to eat well.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 5, 2015
    ISBN9781101889787
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    A Bone to Pick: The Good and Bad News About Food, With Wisdom and Advice on Diets, Food Safety, Gmos, Farming, and More
    Author

    Mark Bittman

    MARK BITTMAN, guest editor, is the author of more than thirty books, including the How to Cook Everything series and the #1 New York Times bestseller VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health . . . for Good. He was a food columnist, an opinion columnist, and the lead magazine food writer at the New York Times, where he started writing in 1984 and remained for more than thirty years.

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    • 3/5
      A good book if you want to be educated on where your “industrial” food comes from. However it felt like they just tried covering every News article about food production, consumption, etc. I feel if you ever read about industrial food production issues you already know everything this book has to offer.
    • 4/5
      A Bone to Pick is a collection of articles written by Mark Bittman, food expert, from his New York Times op-ed column. It is a wide ranging compilation focused on nutrition, diet, food fads and the production of food. His passion and the heart of this book is about the corruption of the food chain and the exploitation of animals, workers and food itself by corporate greed. He rallies us to care about what we put into our bodies but even more importantly to care about the destruction of our food supply and do something, no matter how small, about it. While critics have said that some of his solutions are too elite and expensive for the ordinary person, i.e. eating mostly organic food, he is clear that this is a distortion of his ideas by those who stand to profit from the production of processed food. What he does do is cajole us to do whatever we can to become healthier, to eat more fruits and vegetables for example whether organic or not, and understand what is at stake as our food systems become increasingly spoiled. The only bone I have to pick with this book is that it is often repetitive. Part of this is because it is a collection of articles for a newspaper which lends itself to restating ideas as one builds a case over the weeks but does not work so well in a book. Yet, in its repetition the outrage, the moral clarity and the onus to be part of the solution is clear. Thank you to Edelweiss for allowing me to review this book for an honest opinion.