Conversation

Sustainable Eating

The following texts each present a view on the issue of eating in an environmentally sustainable way.

Sources

  1. Peter Menzel, from Hungry Planet (photo essay)
  2. Michael Pollan, A Naturalist in the Supermarket
  3. James McWilliams, The Locavore Myth
  4. Jonathan Safran Foer, The American Table and The Global Table
  5. Nicolette Hahn Niman, The Carnivore’s Dilemma
  6. Will Allen, A Good Food Manifesto for America
  7. A. J. Jacobs, Farm to Table: How Our Restaurant Gets Its Food to Your Plate
  8. Michael Specter, from Test-Tube Burgers

After you have read, studied, and synthesized these pieces, enter the Conversation by responding to one of the writing prompts on page 987.