Eating-Animals: The Rhetoric of Animals, Food, and the Environment

• Cultural encyclopedia of vegetarianism. (IC)
• Encyclopedia of animal rights and animal welfare. (IC) Earlier edition online.
• Encyclopedia of environmental ethics and philosophy. (IC)
• Encyclopedia of local, organic, and sustainable food.  (IC) Also online.
• McDonaldization of society 5. (5th ed.)(SSRC)

For books and databases

• Animal welfare
• Human – animal relationships
• Factory farms (Livestock factories = old term)
• Food of animal origin
• Meat industry and trade
• Sustainable agriculture = organic

Limit results by TOPIC, also try adding these terms to initial search: environmental aspects, health aspects, moral and ethical aspects

• Antibiotic resistance: agencies have made limited progress...; online Sept. 2011 U.S. GAO report.
• Ethics and animals: an introduction. in Falconer (Biology) Library; see their Research Guide on Ecology for descriptions of science databases.
• The face on your plate: the truth about food.
• The meat you eat: how corporate farming has endangered America's food supply. By former director of Sierra Club.
• The real cost of cheap food.

Names to remember:

Wendell Berry, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Raj Patel (rajpatel.org), Tom Regan, John Robbins (www.earthsave.org), Peter Singer

see FOOD RESOURCES – examples of call numbers: GT/HD/HV

GT2850 Eating and drinking customs

HD9000: Land use +, includes social/cultural aspects of food

HV: Social Service; HV4700 – Animal Rights

• Academic Search Premier– “choose databases” to add: Agricola (agriculture), Alternative Press Index, Business Source Complete, Environment Index, GreenFile, Left Index
• ISI Web of Knowledge – many science databases, including CABI: CAB Abstracts® and Global Health® (1910-present; agriculture +), also some social sciences
• Research Library - ProQuest, click CHANGE on the toolbar, then "select all" to search all ProQuest databases.

• Amber Waves - the economics of food, farming, natural resources, and rural America (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
• Food Politics - Marion Nestle's great blog
• Institute for Critical Animal Studies - publishes Journal for Critical Animal Studies, v.1, 2003- online
• U.S. Food Policy - "public interest perspective" blog

A recent debate about food:

U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance - September 22, 2011 debate with Marion Nestle and others on Fooddialogues.com