Food Economics

Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry [Book, 2024] by Austin Frerick [website]

Concentration of Power in the Food System [Book, 2021] by Phil Howard [philhoward.net]

Big Hunger [Book, 2017] by Andy Fisher

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty [Book, 2011; Challenge of World Poverty course, 2011] by Esther Duflo [website] and Abhijit Banerjee [website]

Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System [Book, 2008] by Raj Patel [rajpatel.org]

No Logo by Naomi Kline [book, 1999]

Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal [Book, 2020] by Mark Bitman

Grocery Stores

Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants [Book, 2019] by Jon Steinman

Becoming Trader Joe [Book, 2021] by Joe Columbe

Supermarket News [Website, email list]

Ingredient Safety

Environmental Working Group (EWG) [Website]

Consumer Reports [Website]

Yuka – App for scanning groceries and cosmetics for potentially-toxic ingredients [Website]

Women’s Health

Doing Harm: the Truth about how Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed and Sick by Maya Dusenbery [book, 2018]

Keeping it Together How Women became America’s Safety Net by Jessica Calarco [book, 2024]

Agricultural Advocacy

Farm Action [farmaction.us]

Civil Eats [civileats.com]

Equitable Food Initiative [equitablefood.org]

Food Economics Advocacy

Open Markets Institute – Food and Power [Website]

Organization for Competitive Markets [website]

Virginia Tech Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation [website]

Organic Food Advocacy

National Organic Coalition [website]

The Rodale Institute [website]

The Cornucopia Institute [website]

My Health Forward [blog]

Global Geopolitics and Democracy

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Kline [book, 2007]

Autocracy, Inc. The Dictators Who Want to Rule the World by Anne Applebaum [Episode, book, 2024]

Mental Health and Eating Disorders

The Rules of Normal Eating: A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters and Everyone In Betweeen! by Karen E. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed. [Book, 2005]

The Anatomy of Anxiety by Ellen Vora [Book, 2005, Libby link]