UUA Bookstore Helps You to Eat Ethically This Holiday Season

In choosing ethical eating as a movement-wide focus of study in 2008, Unitarian Universalists acknowledged the importance of the moral dimensions of our food choices. These choices are all the more important during the winter holidays, as meals are shared among family and friends. Here are some books from your UUA Bookstore to help you eat more ethically this holiday season.

How do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions including discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens impact the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables and our wider culture?

In Behind the Kitchen Door, Saru Jayaraman offers a groundbreaking exploration of the political, economic, and moral implications of dining out. This book has been selected as the 2013-2014 UUA Common Read. Purchase today.

The rapidly growing alternative food system is made up of people reclaiming their connections to their food and their health. A 40-year veteran of this movement, Mark Winne introduces us to innovative "local doers" leading the charge to bring nutritious, sustainable, and affordable food to all.

The ideas found in Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin' Mamas will challenge you to become part of a larger solution--demanding a system that sustains body and soul. Purchase today.

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents an essential new strategy for investing in local food systems and introduces a group of fiduciary activists who are exploring what should come after industrial finance and industrial agriculture.

Their vision for investing puts soil fertility into return-on-investment calculations and serves people and places as much at it serves industry sectors and markets. Purchase today.

In Terra Madre, author Carlo Petrini shows us a solution to the industrial food crisis in the thousands of newly formed local alliances between food producers and food consumers.

Petrini proposes expanding these alliances-connecting regional food communities around the world to promote good, clean, and fair food.Purchase today.

Join John and Ocean Robbins for 21 intimate, game-changing conversations with some of the world's leading "food revolutionaries": scientists, doctors, teachers, farmers, economists, activists, and nutritionists working on food issues today.

Voices of the Food Revolution is a fascinating look behind the scenes of the multi-faceted food movement, and a call to join in the work of ensuring our health and food future. Purchase today.

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