Reading-related Links: WEEK 2

This week, we're reading about changes in U.S. Food and Farm structure over the course of the 20th Century. Here are a few links for more information on this topic.

Gottlieb and Joshi, Chapter 2:

• From the section "Grocery Gaps": USDA's information about food deserts; and their "food desert locator tool" (which we'll be critiquing later in the semester...!)
• From the section "Convenient Calorie Culture": Democracy Now interview with David Kessler on food marketing. 
• From the section "Convenient Calorie Culture": Check out Lunchables' "Kids Site"! (Also Post's Pebbles Play, Kraft's Candystand). 
• From the section "Convenient Calorie Culture": NYT article on Coke's "H2NO" Campaign

Gottlieb and Joshi, Chapter 5:

• From the section "Wal-Mex Takes Over": A NYTimes article on Walmart de Mexico's bribery practices.
• From the section "Globesity": David Berreby on "The Obesity Era"