Books

Six Arguments for a Greener Diet. Jacobson. 2006.
Diet for a New America. Robbins. 1998.
Eat Your Heart Out; why the food business is bad for the planet and your health. Lawrence. 2008.
Stolen Harvest; The hijacking of the global food supply. Shiva. 1999.
The China Study; The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health. Campbell. 2006.

Reports (referenced in some blogs and pages)

1. The Soy Case. A SEED
2. Livestock’s Long Shadow, 2006. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States
3. The Global Benefits of Eating Less Meat. Compassion in World Farming
4. Vital Signs 2007 - 2008. World Watch Institute
5. Food, livestock production, energy, climate change and health. 2007. McMichael, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra
6. Diet, energy and global warming. 2006. Eshel & Martin. University of Chicago
7. Water - More Nutriton Per Drop. Stockholm International Water Institute
8. Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer, 2007. World Cancer Research Fund.
9. Cool Farming, Climate Impacts of Agriculture and Mitigation Potential. 2007. Greenpeace.
10. Hoofprints. 2008. Friends of the Earth.
11. Are Your Meals Costing the Earth? 2007. Vegan Society.
12. What Do We Feed Food Production Animals? 2006. Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health
13. Evaluating environmental impacts of the Japanese beef cow-calf system by the life cycle assessment method. 2007. National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, Tsukuba, and Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan
14. Who Benefits from GM Crops? The Rise in Pesticide Use. 2008. Friends of the Earth International
15. Industrial Animal Agriculture - Part of the Poverty Problem. 2007. World Society for the Protection of Animals
16. Eat Less Meat: It’s Costing the Earth. (video) 2007. Compassion in World Farming.
17. Global Warming: Climate Change and Farm Animal Welfare. 2007. Compassion in World Farming.
18. Diet for a New America. 1998. Robbins.
    
19. Preparing for a Warmer World: Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Refugees. 2007. Vrije University, Amsterdam.
20. State of Food Insecurity in the World. 2006. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.
21. A New Global Warming Strategy: How Environmentalists are Overlooking Vegetarianism as the Most Effective Tool Against Climate Change in our Lifetimes. EarthSave International.
22. State of the World’s Minorities. 2008. Minority Rights Group International
23. Climate Change: Voices from Communities Affected by Climate Change. 2007. Friends of the Earth International
24. Human Tide: the Real Migration Crisis. 2007. Christian Aid.
25. Climate of Disaster. 2007. Tearfund.
26. Arthritis Research and Therapy. 2008. Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
27. Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. 2008. Earth Policy Institute
28. Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States. 2008. Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA
29. Agricultural Outlook 2008-2017. 2008. FAO and OECD.
30. Eating up the Amazon. 2006. Greenpeace
31. Cargill - Eating up the Amazon. 2006. Greenpeace.
32. From Rainforest to Chicken Breast. 2006. Milieudefensie, The Netherlands
33. The China Study, startling implications for diet, weight loss and long-term health. Campbell. USA. 2005.
34. Silent Invasion; the hidden use of GM crops in livestock feed. 2007. Soil Association.
35. Meat vs Fuel: Grain use in the US and China 1995-2008. 2008. Biofuels Digest
36. Impact of Livestock Farming: Solutions for animals, people and the planet. 2008. CIWF
37. Go vegan, fight climate change leaflet. Animal Aid
38. The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change. 2001. New Internationalist/ Godrej
39. Amazon crime file. 2006. Greenpeace.
40. Parched planet. 2006. New Scientist
41. Virtual water flows between nations in relation to trade in livestock and livestock products. 2003. UNESCO-IHE
42. The Interactive Effect of Cultural Symbols and Human Values on Taste Evaluation. 2008. Journal of Consumer Research
43. Can Britain feed itself? 2008. The Land. Simon Fairlie.
44. Happier meals; rethinking the global meat industry. 2005. Worldwatch
45. Tomorrow’s Amazonia; using and abusing the world’s last great forests. 2007. The American Prospect.
46. State of the World 2008; Innovations for a Sustainable Economy. Chapter 5: Meat and Seafood: The Global Diet’s Most Costly Ingredients. 2008. Worldwatch Institute
47. Mortality and cancer incidence in a cohort of meatworkers. 2003. L Fritschi et al. Australia.
48. Blood, sweat and fear: Worker’s rights in US meat and poultry plants. 2005. Human Rights Watch
49. Health and Safety priorities in the meat processing industry. Health and Safety Executive. UK.
50. Environmental impact of various dietary patterns combined with different food production systems. 2007. L Baroni et al. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
51. Meat production continues to rise. 2008. Worldwatch Institute.
52. Report on conventional and organic agriculture and their greenhouse gas emissions. 2008. Foodwatch and Institute for Ecological Economy Research.
53. IQ in children and vegetarianism in adulthood. 2006. C R Gale et al.
54. Cooking up a storm; food, greenhouse gas emissions and our changing climate. Food Climate Research Network, University of Surrey, UK. 2008.
55. Manifesto on climate change and the future of food security. 2008. The International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture

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