In this  chapter, we'll learn how corn, and it's abundance, has largely created the vast number of processed foods that are available in supermarkets today. 

This chapter shares how farms have changed in our country over the last fifty years. Basically, the "farms" we imagine, and the farms that are pictured on our food packaging look nothing like the actual, industrial farms that provide all our food. 

This chapter shares the impact of our use of fossil-fuel based nitrogen as our primary fertilizer, and the impact that it is having on the environment. If you're environmentally conscious, this chapter will really appeal to you. 

This is a chapter that will appeal to students who love animals, because it shares how poorly treated our animals are on feedlots. They live sick lives in piles of their own feces. 

If you care about your health, this is the chapter for you. We'll learn about the health implications of eating a "variety" of foods that contains nutrients derived entirely from corn. 

This chapter shares the birth of the term "organic" and how organic food ended up becoming a part of the industrial food chain.​ 

Polyface Farm is a local, sustainable utopia. This chapter shares an overview of how Joel Salatin runs a farm very differently to the factory farming system. 

The keystone of Polyface Farm's system of growing is the grass. Salatin has growing grass down to a science, and it's that grass that allows him to grow so much meat. 

While animals are still grown for food on Polyface, their lives are much different than factory farmed animals. This chapter shares how it's possible for Polyface to produce a lot of meat without mistreating animals. 

Eating Animals is the section of the book that most succinctly describes "The Omnivore's Dilemma," and discusses the thought process behind whether or not to eat meat. 

Hunting is the most local and sustainable way to get our food, because there is virtually no food chain - the animal and the eater meet in the middle. 

If you like the idea of a short food chain, but hate the idea of killing an animal, then gathering might be for you. Gathering is exactly what it sounds like, walking out in the world and finding edible plants. 

In this short clip, Jamie Oliver shares his experience with kids from West Virginia the difference between real and processed chicken.  Never has the problem with our food systems been more succinctly embodied. He goes on to share thoughts about the importance of teaching our kids about food, and sharing some staggering statistics about the amount of sugar our kids ingest JUST IN SCHOOL. 

Ann Cooper is the me of lunch ladies. Her speech about how she has drastically changed the lunch program in Berkeley, California is an inspiration, and ever time I plan a unit, I think of her. She shares some amazing insights about how to fund revolutionary change for our students diet, and the importance of getting kids on the right dietary track early in their lives, and in a formal way within the constructs of the school day. 

We think that we NEED to use factory farms and the industrial food system just to keep up with the demand of our growing, human population, but that isn't actually the case according to Tristram Stuart. In this interesting talk full of food-waste imagery, easy to understand connections between crackers and the global food supply, and simple solutions that we can employ today, Stuart will win you over to the side of moving towards less waste, and a more sustainable future for our food. 

Davita Davidson sees Detroit as the positive epicenter for sustainable farming practices. Davidson talks about sustainable farming from both a business and a health perspective, and shares a message of hope. 

We are trained to hear the letters "GMO" and think "poison." We know they're somthing to avoid. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, shares why that mentality may be false, and shares some insight into the role that genetically modified organisms have on our food system. 

We think of farms as the main source of food, and we worry about the environment from a land-based perspective. Jackie Savitz shares how the 2/3 of our planet covered in water could be the key to feeding the human population in the future in this interesting speech titled "Save the oceans, feed the planet."