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Unnaturally Delicious
How Science and Technology Are Serving Up Super Foods to Save the World
by Jayson Lusk
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by St. Martin's Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-07430-0, ISBN: 1-250-07430-4

"The food discussion in America can be quite pessimistic. With high obesity rates, diabetes, climate change, chemical use, water contamination, and farm animal abuse, it would seem that there wasn't very much room for a positive perspective. The fear that there just isn't enough food has expanded to new areas of concern about water availability, rising health care costs, and dying bees.In Unnaturally Delicious, Lusk makes room for optimi ..."

Unnaturally Delicious
How Farmers, Foodies, and Technology Are Averting the World's Biggest Food Crises One Innovation at a Time
by Jayson Lusk
288 Pages, Published 2016 by St. Martin's Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-8595-0, ISBN: 1-4668-8595-5

"Still, he thinks such devices might, in the short run, be useful in identifying whether a product is grossly contaminated. If we can't yet easily test food safety ourselves, we will have to trust those who sell us our food. To take a closer look at food sellers, I got in touch with the biggest around: Frank Yiannas, Walmart's vice president for food safety.22 Yiannas is a rock star in the world of food safety. He's received numerou ..."

The Food Police
A Well-Fed Manifesto about the Politics of Your Plate
by Jayson Lusk
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-98705-1, ISBN: 0-307-98705-1

The Food Police
A Well-Fed Manifesto about the Politics of Your Plate
by Jayson Lusk
240 Pages, Published 2013 by Crown Forum
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-98704-4, ISBN: 0-307-98704-3

"- Why the food police hypocritically believe an iPad is a technological marvel but food technology is an industrial evil So before Big Brother and Animal Farm merge into a socialist nightmare, read The Food Police and let us as Americans ..."

Food Police
A Well-Fed Manifesto about the Politics of Your Plate
by Jayson Lusk
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-299-45566-5, ISBN: 1-299-45566-2

The Food Police(1st Edition)
A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
by Jayson Lusk
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Crown Forum
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-98703-7, ISBN: 0-307-98703-5

"A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows? A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are wallowing in government subsidies. Meat packers and fast food restaurants are exploiting workers a ..."

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy
by Jayson Lusk, Jutta Roosen, Jason F. Shogren
901 Pages, Published 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-174398-6, ISBN: 0-19-174398-4

"This handbook brings together contributions from the top researchers in the economics of food consumption and policy."

Agricultural Marketing and Price Analysis(1st Edition)
by F. Bailey Norwood, Jayson Lusk
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2007 by Prentice Hall
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-221121-5, ISBN: 0-13-221121-1

"For courses in Agricultural Marketing, Agricultural Price Analysis, Economics of Agricultural Markets, and Agribusiness. As refreshing as its tone is the innovative approach this text takes to economic theory and agricultural marketing strategies. This text offers versatility by covering a wide range of topics that include both traditional economic theory and organizational economics. Novice readers will gravitate to the inviting writin ..."