The Unsettling of America

Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. San Francisco, CA: The Yolla Bolly Press, 1977. Print. 

- from Lippard's bibliography

- The main thing I gathered from this text was about the agricultural revolution, but I find this interesting to compare it to today's food waste books especially in the fact of how food has become devalued due to society not being as involved with their food as they used to be. 

Food Waste

Evans, D., Food Waste: Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Print

Chapters 2-4

- buying more food than necessary

- status and appearance 

- anxiety from food safety 

- wanting food to be optimal

- blaming children - fussy

American Wasteland

Bloom, Jonathan. American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and what we can do about it). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010. Print

Chapter 4

- free food programs create waste - overcompensation

- even children who can't afford food don't like it & have an abundance of it, so it gets wasted

- idea that we learn this idea of wasting food from school at a young age

- overabundance of food = devalue of food

- portion sizes & overeating food 

Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal

Stuart, T. Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal". New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2009. Print. 

Chapters 4 & 5

- In the U.S. there are no federal laws requiring date labelling on food, except for some baby foods

- the government prefers instead to focus on educating the public about how to treat food safely

- dating some food is required by more than twenty states

- this causes cacophony within the United States

- People buy more food than they can possibly eat

- "Good Mother Syndrome" - always wanting to make sure food is plenty & choice

- the way we feed children determines how much food we waste

- unconscious of food wasting