20 Index
factory farms, 9 , 2
family farms, 2 – 2 8
Farm Bills
Barack Obama and, 9 – 98
Freedom to Farm Bill ( 996 ),
94 – 95
history of, 90 – 9
insurance and, 96
politics and, 9
farmland
division of, 66 – 0
governmental dispersal of, – 2
losses of,
settlers and, 0
Farmland Industries, 2 , 4 – 5 , 2 4
fat, 29 - ,, 6 , 46 , 5 , 64 , 9 , 52 ,
6 , 68 , 0 - 8 , 84 - 86 , 2 5 ,
24 , 244
FDA. See Food and Drug
Administration
fertilizers, 2 – 4 , 05 , 9
fetal bovine serum, 82
financing, support of science and,
0 – 08
fire, survival and, 48 – 49 , 5
fish, 25 – 2
Florida, 0 , 2 2
flours, 2 –
Food and Drug Administration
(FDA)
additives and, 80 – 8
Food Safety Modernization Act
and, 64
food safety regulations and,
55 – 5 , 64
fraud and, 8
predecessor of, 49
food assistance programs, 95
Food Guide Pyramid (USDA),
68 – 69
food safety
bovine spongiform
encephalopathy and, 49 – 50 ,
8 – 82
canning and, 46 – 4
E. coli and, 50 – 52 , 54 , 59
expectations for, 64 – 66
lack of, 4 – 48
need for comprehensive oversight
and, 60 – 62
pure food movement and,
48 – 49
regulations for, 55 – 5
science and, 62 – 64
trade and, 6 – 64
Zachary Taylor and, 45 – 46
Food Safety Inspection Service
(FSIS)
adulteration of food and, 59 – 60
challenges faced by, 5 – 58
China and, 6 – 62 , 6
creation of, 49
food safety regulations and,
55 – 5
Food Safety Modernization Act
(FSMA), 56 – 5 , 64
Food Stamp Act, 220
food waste, 2 5 – 2 6 , 22 , 245
foot-and-mouth disease, 0 – 04
Fordlandia (Brazil), 20
fossil fuels, 204
Foster, Rick, 4 – 5
Foster Farms, 6
fracking,
fraud, 80 – 85
Frayer, David, 4 – 5
free, defined, 8
free markets, 5 – 6
Freedom to Farm Bill ( 996 ), 94
freeloading, 222 – 22