Books, Reports, Websites, Movies, and More
Food is a broad topic. It touches everything from cuisine to climate change, hunger to factory and organic farms, pathogens to healthy arteries. Millions of books, articles, and websites could be listed here, so consider the items listed here as just tiny tip of the iceberg. We believe they are all interesting and informative in one way or another.
Some obvious advice when you are searching for online information: seek reliable websites. When exploring health issues, guard against unreliable medical websites and those pushing (usually unnecessary) dietary supplements. Some of the best starting places for information on any topic are websites sponsored by the federal government and established nonprofit organizations like the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, Environmental Defense Fund, and ASPCA. Most trade associations and corporations have commercial interests that just might shade their opinions.
The National Food Museum does not necessarily endorse the content of these resources.
We welcome your suggestions of additional important and reliable items.
Environment/Climate


Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The United Nations’ report on “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” offers 17 Sustainable Development Goals.


Tackling the climate crisis with a more plant-based diet
Tackling the climate crisis with a more plant-based diet. United Nations Environment Program (2018)






Livestock’s Long Shadow
Livestock’s Long Shadow FAO’s comprehensive 2006 report on the impact of livestock on the environment


Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems
Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems – awesome, comprehensive, authoritative report on food, health, environment, population, and sustainability

Farming


Kiss the Ground
A Netflix film, narrated by Woody Harrelson, that advocates regenerative agriculture and a more-plant-based diet


“Food for Thought, Food for Life.”
Beautiful film advocating local, sustainable agriculture. 22’
Food Industry

The Jungle
American packinghouses that endangered consumers, harmed workers, and were cruel to the animals.


How To Eat: All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered
How to Eat: All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered, by David Katz and Mark Bittman. A concise guide on how to eat healthfully that cuts through a lot of the usual nonsense.

How To Eat: All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered
Interviews with industry executives show how companies placed profits over public health.

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
Marion Nestle, the prominent New York University food-studies professor literally wrote the book on the politics of food.

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Eric Schlosser 2012 insightful book is more about the plight of food workers than fast food.



A Sweet Deal
An X-ray of the sugar industry’s environmental and labor practices (Netflix)

Food, Nutrition, Health







Salt Wars: The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet
Salt: The Forgotten Killer, by Michael F. Jacobson, the founder of the National Food Museum, explains the evidence demonstrating that a high-sodium diet contributes to as many as 100,000 premature






Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
(University of Washington) county-by-county color-coded maps of the United States showing the life expectancy, mortality rates, and risk factors for disease.

How To Eat: All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered
Interviews with industry executives show how companies placed profits over public health.

How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America, by Priya Fielding-Singh
How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America, by Priya Fielding-Singh.



Food 2050
Food 2050 This series of 10 beautiful 7-minute videos, produced by the Rockefeller Foundation and Media RED, that document the efforts of 10 global visionaries to improve the world’s food


1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health
The landmark conference that led to the hugely successful “War on Hunger.”

Global Food Security

U.S. Agency for International Development, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Alliance for the Future of Food, World Bank
U.S. Agency for International Development Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Alliance for the Future of Food World Bank

Other Food Museums, Exhibits

The Saint Louis Science Center has a science-oriented indoor and outdoor “Grow” exhibit about agriculture.
Dig in and learn about agriculture.



