The Grand Food Bargain

 6 Notes

8. bulging oversized eyes: Bruce Knecht, Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and

the Perfect Fish (New York: Rodale Books,  007 ).
9. old fish morphed into a new image: “Chasing the Perfect Fish: The
Chilean Sea Bass Craze Set Off a Seagoing Gold Rush, Tempting Toothfish
Poachers,” Wall Street Journal, last modified May 4 ,  006 , https://www.wsj.com
/articles/SB 4670694  36643399.
 0. Catches of ten to twenty tons: Ibid.
. “certified sustainable” label: “Fish to Eat,” Marine Stewardship
Council, accessed March  9 ,  0  8 , https://www.msc.org/cook-eat-enjoy/fish
-to-eat.
. helps ensure fish for tomorrow: “What Does the Blue MSC Label
Mean?” Marine Stewardship Council, accessed March  9 ,  0  8 , https:// 0

.msc.org/what-we-are-doing/our-approach/what-does-the-blue-msc-label
-mean.
 3. people are willing to buy: Florence Fabricant, “Chilean Sea Bass:
More than an Identity Problem,” New York Times, May  9 ,  00 , https://www
.nytimes.com/ 00 / 0 / 9 /dining/chilean-sea-bass-more-than-an-identity
-problem.html.
 4. nearly twenty-one thousand: ERS, “New Products,” last modified
April ,  0  7 , https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-markets-prices/processing
-marketing/new-products/.
. tossing bunches of bananas: See, for example: Koeppel, Banana.
 6. word of a devastating fungus: Nadia Ordonez et al., “Worse Comes
to Worst: Bananas and Panama Disease—When Plant and Pathogen Clones
Meet,” PLoS Pathogens , no.  (November  0 ): e 00  97 , http://journals.plos
.org/plospathogens/article/file?id= 0 . 37 /journal.ppat. 00  97 &type=print
able.
 7. vast tracts of tropical rain forest: Stephen Kinzer, The Brothers: John
Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War (New York: Times Books/
Henry Holt & Co.,  0  3 ).
 8. Panama disease started appearing: Ordonez et al., “Worse Comes to
Worst.”
 9. TR4 has since spread: Ibid.
 0. 80 percent of bananas traded: FAO, “Banana Market Review and
Banana Statistics  0 – 0  3 ,” .
. 150 to 200 have been adopted: “Women: Users, Preservers, and Mana-
gers of Agro-biodiversity,” FAO,  0  8 , accessed March  9 ,  0  8 , http://www.fao
.org/docrep/x 0  7 e/x 0  7 e 03 .htm.
. less than 9 percent of total calories: Jeanine Bentley, “US Trends in
Food Availability and a Dietary Assessment of Loss-Adjusted Food Avail-