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Organic, Inc. $22.98 A history of the organic food industry traces recent trends back to their anti-industrial origins from more than a century ago, sharing the stories of key innovators while offering insight into the meteoric rise of organic food and how some of its producers may be compromising their original ideals. Reprint.

The Organic Food Handbook : A Consumer’s Guide To Buying And Eating Organic Food $4.99 More and more people are eating organic food. Once derided as a hippie fad today organic is the fastest growing segment of the United States food industry with consumer demand increasing by nearly 20 percent each year. No longer confined to natural food stores organic food is now on supermarket shelves served in restaurants and fast food chains and even sold at national parks and major league baseball stadiums. Many schools and colleges such as Yale and Stanford now serve organic food to their students. People are choosing organic because they want a healthier and safer alternative to ”conventional”food with its use of toxic pesticides antibiotics hormones and genetic engineering. The Organic Food Handbook examines this important trend and provides a concise simple guide to eating and buying organic food.