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• Winner of <PrizeName>Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009</PrizeName> 2009
• Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009 2009
• Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009</PrizeName> 2009

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An excellent primer on the food we eat today. --Brian Halweil, Worldwatch Institute If you suspect something may be fundamentally wrong with the food you have been eating, you are right. Harvey Blatt's new book, America's Food, provides a multitude of scientific facts, understandable statistics, and logical conclusions that will confirm your suspicions. This highly readable book will almost certainly cause you to change how and what you eat. --John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia, author of Sustainable Capitalism Comprehensive, informative, readable: a good primer on America's food supply and eating habits. --Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba, author of Energy in Nature and Society and Feeding the World

An excellent primer on the food we eat today. --Brian Halweil, Worldwatch Institute -- Brian Halweil Comprehensive, informative, readable: a good primer on America's food supply and eating habits. --Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba, and author of Energy in Nature and Society and Feeding the World -- Vaclav Smil An excellent primer on the food we eat today. Brian Halweil , Worldwatch Institute Comprehensive, informative, readable: a good primer on America's food supply and eating habits. Vaclav Smil , Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba, author of Energy in Nature and Society and Feeding the World

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Harvey Blatt is the author of America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade? (MIT Press). He taught geology at the University of Houston and the University of Oklahoma for many years and is now Professor of Geology at the Institute of Earth Sciences at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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