Kingston Public Library and edible South Shore and South Coast
present Antibiotics in Your Food, May 15, 2014

Resources

Books in the Old Colony Library Network

Blaser, Martin J. Missing Microbes: How the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues 2014.

Rodale, Maria. Organic Manifesto: how organic farming can heal our planet, feed the world and keep us safe. 2010.

O’Brien, Robyn. The Unhealthy Truth: how our food is making us sick and what we can do about it2009.

Eastabrook, Barry. Tomatoland: how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit. 2011. (electronic resource)

Websites

southshoreorganics.com   South Shore Organics.

thefern.org Food &Environment Reporting Network.

organic-center.org The Organic Center.

ofrf.org Organic Farming Research Foundation.                                                

fda.gov  U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

cdc.gov  Center for Disease Control: food safety and antibiotic resistance.

In The News

Estabrook, Barry. “Antibiotics in your food: what’s causing the rise in antibiotic resistance bacteria in our food supply.”   Eating Well, May/June 2013. http://tinyurl.com/ct9leax

Lawrence Robert S. “The FDA enters withdrawal: the future of antibiotics on farms.” The Atlantic, March 30, 2012. http://tinyurl.com/q6zmswu

Graber, Cynthia. “Poultry Farms that stop antibiotics see resistance fall.” Scientific American, August 2011.   http://tinyurl.com/kpkrjh2

Pogash, Carol. “The elders of organic farming.” Business Day, January 24, 2014.   http://tinyurl.com/lctkw4m

Durso, Lisa. “Food and antibiotic resistance: not all resistance is created equal.” Food Safety Magazine, April 15, 2014.   http://tinyurl.com/oz2odpo

Bittman, Mark. “Leave organic out of it.” New York Times, May 6, 2014.   http://tinyurl.com/q9jslqy