The Grand Food Bargain

 24 Index

oranges,  8 
organophosphates,  99
Orwell, George, , ,  4 –  5 , 2 
ostriches, 4 – 5 , 2  2 – 2 
Ostrom, Elinor, 8 – 89

Pahom (peasant in Tolstoy story),
5 – 58
Pan American Highway,  0 
Panama,  0 – 04
Panama disease, bananas and, 28 – 29
Patagonian toothfish, 25 – 2 
Patent Act ( 90 ),  2 
patents,  0 – ,  2 – 0
pathogens,  4 –  5 , 48 ,  04 ,  9 ,  52 –  54 ,
 5 – 59 ,  62 -  6 ,  9 , 244
peak-rate, 226
penicillin,  9 
PepsiCo,  6
perception of calories,  0
Peru, 85 – 86 , 88 ,  05 ,  9 
pesticides, 52 – 5 ,  95 –  9 ,  99 – 200.
See also herbicides
pests, , 2 , 52 - 5 ,  24 ,  9 ,  96 , 20 ,
205 , 2  4 , 226 , 2 , 244
petroleum 54 , 56 , 65 , 8 - 82 , 20 ,
2 - 2  4 , 224 , 229. See also oil
Peacock, Thomas Love,  8
Pew Charitable Trusts,  80
pheasants,  89
pigs,  5 –  8 ,  59
pink slime, . See also beef slurry;
lean finely textured beef
Plant Patent Act ( 9  0 ),  28
Plant Variety Protection Act ( 9  0 ),
 28
plantains, 
plastic bags, 20 
plastics, 224
politics, 9 – 94

Polk, James,  45

pollen,  8 

Poppendieck, Janet, 22 

The Population Bomb (Ehrlich),  06

population growth, ,  04 –  06 ,  09 ,

2  4 – 2  5

pork industry,  5 –  8 ,  59 ,  6 ,  84 ,

 94

Porter, Michael, 94

potatoes, 29 ,  90 –  9 

poultry,  6 – 62 ,  94 , 2  6

poverty,  0

power, knowledge as,  20

predators, prey vs., 46 – 4 

prepared foods,  4 –  5

preservatives,  48

prey, predators vs., 46 – 4 

probiotics, – 2

processed foods, – 4 ,  6

productivity, 226

property ownership, 

Pruitt, Scott,  9

pseudoscience,  6 – ,  24

pure food movement,  48

Pynchon, Thomas, 2 

Qingdao Nine-Alliance Group of

China,  6 – 62

qualified health claims,  8 –  9

quantum dots, 228

rain follows the plow,  4

rational behavior, 9 – 92

rationing, 9 , 50

Reagan, Ronald,  4

real, defined,  8

reasonable behavior, 24 – 244

Red River Valley (Minnesota), 52

refined flour, 

refuge crops,  9 