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Organic: A Journalist"s Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling

Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label. It is also a wakeup call about the dubious origins of food labeled organic. After eating some suspect organic walnuts that supposedly were produced in Kazakhstan, veteran journalist Peter Laufer chooses a few items from his home pantry and traces their origins back to their source. Along the way he learns how easily we are tricked into taking “organic” claims at face value.

With organic foods readily available at supermarket chains, confusion and outright deception about labels have become commonplace. Globalization has allowed food from highly corrupt governments and businesses overseas to pollute the organic market with food that is anything but. The organic environment is like the Wild West: oversight is virtually nonexistent, and deception runs amok. Laufer investigates so-called organic farms in Europe and South America as well as in his own backyard in the Pacific Northwest.

The book examines what constitutes organic and by whom the definitions are made. The answers will stun readers, who have been sold a questionable, highly suspect, and even false bill of goods for years.

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After the success of his previous book, The Secret Life of Butterflies, it seems clear that journalist Peter Laufer has hit his stride. His new book, Organic: A Journalist’s Quest to Discover the Truth Behind Food Labeling, is an exciting, charming and intelligent look into the food industry’s bid to capitalize on the health-food movement. Laufer debunks the food industry’s false claims about the “correctness” of the food it pushes on us, and like all good journalists, leaves us better-informed and a little bit smarter as a result. You’ll never look at the “organic” label on the food you buy in the same way… The book is a delightful eye-opener, that will change what you eat and who you are.

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Organic: A Journalist’s Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling Details

• Author: Peter Laufer ( Download PDF : )


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 0762790717


• ISBN-13: 978-0762790715


• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1 x 9.2 inches


• Hardcover: 288 pages


• Publisher: Lyons Press; First edition (July 1, 2014)

About the Author

Peter Laufer, PhD, is the author of more than a dozen books that deal with social and political issues—from borders and identity to human relationships with other animals—including The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists; The Elusive State of Jefferson: A Journey through the 51st State; Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq; Wetback Nation: The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border; and Slow News: A Manifesto for the Critical News Consumer. He is the James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.

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