New York Review of Books - The Food Movement, Rising

"In what is ostensibly a five-book review (see book list below) for the June 10 New York Review of Books, journalist Michael Pollan has an epic essay charting the emergence and character of the food movement. Or, as he puts it, "'movements,' since it is unified as yet by little more than the recognition that industrial food production is in need of reform because its social/environmental/public health/animal welfare/gastronomic costs are too high." (Pollan, of course, has been indispensable in the rise of this movement, yet he omits his 2006 best-seller, The Omnivore's Dilemma, from his list of its catalysts -- among them Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, Marion Nestle's Food Politics.)" (quoted from The Ethicurean) 

• Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin 

• All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America? by Joel Ber

• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

• Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities by Carlo Petrini, with a foreword by Alice Waters 

• The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society by Janet A. Flammang

See Michael Pollan's full essay, "The Food Movement, Rising," here.