8 Notes
3 . competing with restaurants: ERS, “Table 0 -Food Away from Homeas a Share of Food Expenditures,” in “Food Expenditure,” last modified
January 6 , 0 6 , https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-expenditures
.aspx.
36. mass-produced ingredients: ERS, “Food Dollar Series” application,
last modified March 6 , 0 7 , https://data.ers.usda.gov/reports.aspx?ID= 788 .
37. In his seminal book: Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and
Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 977 ).
38. maximize the country’s wealth: John Cassidy, How Markets Fail: The
Logic of Economic Calamities (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 009 ),
chap. .
39. led by an invisible hand: Smith, Wealth of Nations, 364.
40. income spent on food: “Americans’ Budget Shares Devoted to Food
Have Flattened in Recent Years,” and “Food Spending as a Share of Income
Declines as Income Rises,” ERS, last modified March 9 , 0 8 , https://www
.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials
/food-prices-and-spending/.
4 . twice the number of calories: USDA and US Department of Health
and Human Services, “Dietary Guidelines for Americans 0 – 0 0 ,” Decem-
ber 0 , Table A-, 78 , https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/ 0 /resources
/ 0 - 0 0 _Dietary_Guidelines.pdf.
Chapter 3
. When the Sun comes up: Abe Gubegna ( 934 – 980 ), an Ethiopian
novelist and playwright, is credited with this particular quotation. The origi-
nal source is yet to be verified.
. Lest people feel too privileged: Camilo Mora et al., “How Many Spe-
cies Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?” PLoS Biology 9 , no. 8 (August
0 ): e 00 7 , https://doi.org/ 0 . 37 /journal.pbio. 00 7.
3. The losers go extinct: “Mass Extinctions,” American Museum of Na-
tural History website, accessed November 3 , 0 7 , https://www.amnh.org/ex
hibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils-new-discoveries/extinction/mass-
extinction/; M. E. J. Newman, “A Model of Mass Extinction,” Journal of
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(New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 99 ).
4. aphids into a vegetable patch: Daniel Fairbanks, Evolving: The Human
Effect and Why It Matters (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 0 ), 44.