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The real price of Cheap Food

Food Med 2007  Downloads  Changing our Cheap Food Mentality
Hugh Joseph, PhD Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University


Food Med 2005 Downloads
 
Time Magazine:  Getting Real about the Cheap Price of Food
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458,00.html.

FoodMed 2009 Downloads

What is a CAFO? Cheap Meat and Poultry
Public Health Issues with Industrialized Beef, Hog and Poultry Production
Doug Gurian-Sherman, Union for Concerned Scientists



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Protecting the Global Food Chain
A quarter of the calories that feed the planet come from wheat. It’s going to take a lot more wheat to feed the world as its population moves toward 9 billion.
But keeping that vast hunger fed is a constant race against pathogens that can wipe out a harvest, climate change that can strangle a crop.
It takes non-stop breeding and new hybrids. Breeding that can depend on some very old and out-of-the-way strains. On seeds you’d never think of. In the most exotic locations. Seeds that keep your family fed.
This hour, On Point: the staff of life, and the wild story of how bread stays on your table.