References
Conventional
1 Walsh, Bryan. "America's Food Crisis and How to Fix It." Time 31 Aug. 2009: 30-37.
Environment
1 "Scientific Facts on Climate Change 2007 Update." GreenFacts - Facts on Health and the Environment. Web. 03 Dec. 2010. <http://www.greenfacts.org/en/climate-change-ar4/>.
2 The Oil We Eat, Harper’s Magazine. 2/2004. pp.37-45.
3 Worldwatch Paper 103. Alan and Holly Brougher. Taking Stock: Animal Farming and the Environment.
4 Hance, Jeremy. "Tropical Deforestation Is 'one of the Worst Crises since We Came out of Our Caves'" Conservation and Environmental Science News. Web. 03 Dec. 2010. <http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-hance_myers.html>.
5 Innes, Robert K. "Effects of Deforestation." Earlham College — Richmond, Indiana. Web. 03 Dec. 2010. <http://www.earlham.edu/~pols/17Fall96/inneske/effects.HTM>.
6 Butler, Rhett A. "Primary Rainforest Richer in Species than Plantations, Secondary Forests." Conservation and Environmental Science News. Web. 03 Dec. 2010. <http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0702-gardner.html>.
7 Chorley, Matt. "$5,000,000,000,000: The Cost Each Year of Vanishing Rainforest." The Independent. Web. 03 Dec. 2010. <http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/5000000000000-the-cost-each-year-of-vanishing-rainforest-2096367.html>.
8 "Restoring SAV." Maryland Sea Grant. Web. 3 Dec. 2010.
9 "Key Chesapeake Measures Show Slight Improvement - Press Release." Chesapeake Bay Program. Web. 03 Dec. 2010. <http://www.chesapeakebay.net/press_2006falllookback.aspx?menuitem=20282>.
10 2002-The State of the Chesapeake Bay: A Report to the Citizens of the Bay Region. Publication. Chesapeake Bay Program. Web. 3 Dec. 2010. <http://www.chesapeakebay.net/content/publications/cbp_13112_13118.pdf>.
11 Associated Press. "After 20 Years, Kepone Still a Part of River Life, Scientists Lose Manatee off Connecticut Coast and More..." Chesapeake Bay Journal 5.6 (1995). Web. 3 Dec. 2010. <http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=999>.
12 "Chesapeake Bay Foundation | Water Pollution Facts." Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Web. 03 Dec. 2010. <http://www.cbf.org/Page.aspx?pid=913>.
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Social
1 , Bryan. "America's Food Crisis and How to Fix It." Time 31 Aug. 2009: 30-37.
2 Pollan, Michael. "We Are What We Eat." Center for Ecoliteracy. Web. 03 Dec. 2010. <http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/we-are-what-we-eat>.
3 Drewnowski, Adam. "The Cost of US Foods as Related to Their Nutritive Value." The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 92.5 (2010): 1181-188.
4 Gupta, Sanjay. "If We Are What We Eat, Americans Are Corn and Soy." CNN. 22 Sept. 2007. Web. 03 Dec. 2010. <http://articles.cnn.com/2007-09-22/health/kd.gupta.column_1_high-fructose-corn-syrup-corn-refiners-association-soybean-oil?_s=PM:HEALTH>.
5 "Agriculture Factbook 2001-2002/chapter 2." U.S. Department of Agriculture. Web. 03 Dec. 2010. <http://www.usda.gov/factbook/chapter2.htm>.
6 Flegal, Katherine M., Margaret D. Carroll, Cynthia L. Ogden, and Lester R. Curtin. "Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2008." The Journal of the American Medical Association 303.3 (2010): 235-41.
7 Finkelstein, E. A., J. G. Trogdon, J. W. Cohen, and W. Dietz. "Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates." Health Affairs 28.5 (2009): W822-831.
8 Ogden, Cynthia, and Margaret Carroll. Prevalence of Obesity Among Children and Adolescents: United States, Trends 1963-1965 Through 2007-2008. Rep. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010. Web. 3 Dec. 2010. <http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity_child_07_08/obesity_child_07_08.htm>.
9 "Cost of Obesity: Health Suffers, So Does Wallet." CBS News. Web. 03 Dec. 2010. <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/21/health/main6887142.shtml>.
10 National Resources Defense Council. <http://www.nrdc.org/health/kids/nfarm.asp>.
11 Edmundson, Sheila. "Real Home of the McNugget Is Tyson." Memphis Business Journal 9 July 1999.
12 Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: the Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
13 Fesperman, Dan, and Kate Shatzkin. "The Plucking of the American Chicken Farmer; From the Big Poultry Companies Comes a New Twist on Capitalism." Baltimore Sun 28 Feb. 1999.
14 "Economic Returns for US Broiler Producers." Department of Agricultural Sciences, Louisiana Tech University, 11 Oct. 1995.
15 Charlier, Marj. "Chicken Economics: The Broiler Industry Consolidates, and That Is Bad News to Farmers." Wall Street Journal 4 Jan. 1990.
16 Williams, Florence. "Farmed Out." New Republic 16 Aug. 1999.
Economic
1 "How Mary-Howell and Klaas Martens Made the Transition to Organic." Rodale Institute. Web. 03 Dec. 2010. <http://newfarm.rodaleinstitute.org/features/0802/mary_klaas/mary_klaas2.shtml>.
2 "Weed Control." Telephone interview. 18 Nov. 2010.
3 Meyer, Ralph, and Tom Olsen. "Estimated Costs for Livestock Fencing." Iowa State University Extension. Web. 03 Dec. 2010. <http://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/livestock/html/b1-75.html>.
4 "Average Cost Of Drilling A Water Well - How Much Does It Cost To Drill A Water Well?" Water Well Drilling Equipment - Should You Rent Or Buy To Drill Your Own Well? Web. 04 Dec. 2010. <http://www.waterwelldrillingequipment.net/average-cost-of-drilling-a-water-well.php>.
5 "Automatic Livestock Waterers and Float Valves." Fleming Outdoors. Web. 04 Dec. 2010. <http://www.flemingoutdoors.com/automatic-livestock-waterers.html>.
6 Commonwealth of Virginia. Department of Conservation and Recreation. Program Year 2011: Virginia Agricultural Cost Share BMP Manual.
7 Lang, Susan S. "Organic Farming Produces Same Corn and Soybean Yields as Conventional Farms, but Consumes Less Energy and No Pesticides, Study Finds." Cornell University News Service (13 July 2005).
8 Posner, Joshua L., Jon O. Baldock, and Janet L. Hedtcke. "Organic and Conventional Production Systems in the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trials: I. Productivity 1990–2002." Agronomy Journal 100.2 (2008): 253-60.
9 Cavigelli, Michel A., John R. Teasdale, and Anne E. Conklin. "Long-Term Agronomic Performance of Organic and Conventional Field Crops in the Mid-Atlantic Region." Agronomy Journal 100.3 (2008): 785-94.
10 Teasdale, John R., Charles B. Coffman, and Ruth W. Mangum. "Potential Long-Term Benefits of No-Tillage and Organic Cropping Systems for Grain Production and Soil Improvement." Agronomy Journal 99 (2007): 1297-305.
11 Archer, David W., Abdullah A. Jaradat, Jane M-F Johnson, Sharon L. Weyers, Russ W. Gesch, Frank Forcella, and Hillarius K. Kludze. "Crop Productivity and Economics during the Transition to Alternative Cropping Systems." Agronomy Journal 99 (2007): 1538-547.
12 Mathews, Jr, Kenneth H., and Rachel J. Johnson. Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook. Rep. USDA, 18 June 2010. 4 Dec. 2010.
13 "Americans Spend Less Than 10 Percent of Disposable Income on Food." Salem-News.Com. Web. 04 Dec. 2010. <http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july192006/food_prices_71906.php>.
14 Meisner, Craig. "Why Organic Food Can't Feed the World." COSMOS Magazine. 24 Sept. 2007. Web. 04 Dec. 2010. <http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/online/1601/why-organic-food-cant-feed-world>.
Balance
1 Personal observation of the author.
2 Patel, Raj. The Value of Nothing. Melbourne: Black, 2009.
3 "Big Mac: Make Your Own." Local Lemons | Healthy, Local Recipes. Web. 04 Dec. 2010. <http://locallemons.com/local_lemons/2009/12/big-mac-make-your-own-have-a-party.html>.
Picture credits
Intro
Golden arches: http://blog.halfadams.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mcdonalds.jpg
Flowchart: http://www.foodbubbles.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/true-cost-of-beef.png
Conventional
Sprayer: http://www.pnwwaterweb.com/images/sprayer.jpg
Abundance: http://media.artdiamondblog.com/images2/Ski-Iowa-small.jpg
Environment
Forest: http://individual.utoronto.ca/esjones/images/slashburn.jpg
Crabs: http://wilddelaware.com/wp-content/pileofcrabs9527.jpg
Grass: http://cbf.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb5353ef0133f5c55ff4970b-pi
Social
Graph: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/01/why-is-american-food-so-cheap/33259/
Map: http://www.obesitydiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/fattest-states-2008-4683.gif
Chickens: http://www.preparednesspro.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/chicken-farm.jpg
Organic
Farm: http://theglobalherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/organic_farming.jpg
Economic
Harrow: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bll4t6lNvW0/R2yLRJl1-eI/AAAAAAAABG0/DGbOLSMgImg/s400/chain-harrow.jpg
Sheep: By Greg Evans
Field: By Greg Evans
Balance
Big Mac: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/05/what_things_cost/image/bigmac.jpg
