Payn - Food Truths from Farm to Table

Advance Praise for Food Truths from Farm to Table

This book is for the 7 billion people who eat each day. Michele Payn highlights how family farms are fighting food waste, hunger, and other issues, and the solutions theyre coming up with in fields across the world.

Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank

Smart grocery shopping and healthy eating shouldnt require a science degree. Food Truths from Farm to Table guides you through the grocery store and saves you time. If you are looking to shop and eat with less guilt, read this book. Micheles 25 food truths will give you the freedom to enjoy your food again.

Phil Lempert, The Supermarket Guru, former NBC News Today Show Food Trends Editor, author, and speaker

This is an important topic whether you are an academic, dietitian or consumer. Michele Payns 25 food truths are grounded in science and she offers an unheard voice in the debate around food, nutrition and health. If you want to give yourself permission to be smart about food, read Food Truths from Farm to Table today.

Sonya Meyer, PhD, Director, Margaret Ritchie School of Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Idaho

Buy, prepare and serve healthy, affordable food with confidence after reading Food Truths from Farm to Table: 25 Surprising Ways to Shop & Eat without Guilt . This book is must-read for anyone interested in food, nutrition and health!

Elizabeth Pivonka, PhD, RD, President & CEO of Produce for Better Health Foundation

In Food Truths from Farm to Table , Michele Payn cuts through the incredible noise that surrounds our food choices to provide clear, insightful answers to some of the most common questions about food. Organized in a creative way, she provides a highly informative guide book to the grocery store, bringing both current research and insights from those who produce our food to unpack some of the most vexing questions and widespread myths about food. This candid and common-sense book will help you be a much more informed consumer and take the shame out of the food choices you make.

Jay Akridge, PhD, Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture, Purdue University

Understanding the real story about food is a critical issue for every health professional, parent, chef, and essentially anyone buying food. You will find answers to your most challenging questions around nutrition and health in Food Truths from Farm to Table and learn to enjoy, not fear food.

Marianne Edge Smith, MS, RD, LD, FADA, FAND, Past President of Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics; President, MSE & Associates, and farm owner

As a dietitian for a grocery store chain, I know this book will not only help answer questions our customers have about the food they see on our shelves but also be a valuable resource to other supermarket dietitians throughout the country. Michele Payn gives practical insight to address myths around food, nutrition, and health. Read Food Truths from Farm to Table if you want to bring clarity to your food experience, based on science and real-life experience.

Leah McGrath, RDN, LDN

Food Truths from Farm to Table provides a transparent window into modern-day agriculture so you can better know the people and practices behind your food. Michele Payn has a unique ability to connect the values of farming and good buyers through story and science.

Charlie Arnot, CEO, Center for Food Integrity

Everyone can benefit from a clearer understanding of why farmers and ranchers produce food the way they do. Michele Payn takes readers inside farms and ranches to answer questions about the food issues on consumers minds. Food Truths from Farm to Table provides a much-needed, well-rounded and accurate perspective on todays farming and ranching.

Zippy Duvall, President, American Farm Bureau Federation

This is an awesome book that provides usable information about food, farming, and nutrition. Michele Payns insight is contrarian to the sensationalism of fashionable food, and will help you take the drama out of food choices. This book is an important read for every dietitian, grocery shopper, and anyone who wants to enjoy food.

Mary Lee Chin, MS, RD

Its time to celebrate and enjoy our abundant, wonderful food choices without angst, guilt, shame or fear. Food Truths from Farm to Table will help you be smart and comfortable about all food choices, while identifying marketing half-truths and misinformation that take the joy out of eating. Michele Payn connects farming, food, nutrition and health throughout this useful book.

Kim Galeaz, RDN, CD

Food Truths from Farm to Table is very refreshing as the book exemplifies critical thinking skills needed in any discussion about food. Michele Payn offers readers an inside look at farmers abilities and initiatives, as well as the technologies and knowledge of many others in producing safe and affordable food. Her personal experiences and transparency build trustand when combined with Micheles extensive research, these food truths become real to readers. This book will help consumers sort through how to make the best food choices for their families.

W. Dwight Armstrong, PhD, Retired CEO, National FFA Organization

An engaging defense of modern agricultural production practices.

Jayson Lusk, Professor of Agricultural Economics and author of Unnaturally Delicious

This is an important topic for anyone who eats! Michele Payns writing makes tough topics approachable; she gives an insiders look at all types of farming and ranching. This book will give you reasonable answers to your biggest food questions.

Crystal Mackay, CEO, Farm & Food Care Canada

Food Truths from Farm to Table

25 Surprising Ways to Shop & Eat without Guilt

Michele Payn

Copyright 2017 by Michele Payn

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Payn, Michele, author.

Title: Food truths from farm to table : 25 surprising ways to shop & eat without guilt / Michele Payn.

Description: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016052246 (print) | LCCN 2017000119 (ebook) | ISBN 9781440849978 (hard copy : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781440849985 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Sustainable agriculture. | Food industry and trade. | Agriculture.

Classification: LCC S494.5.S86 P39 2017 (print) | LCC S494.5.S86 (ebook) | DDC 631.5dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016052246

ISBN: 978-1-4408-4997-8

EISBN: 978-1-4408-4998-5

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This book is also available as an eBook.

Praeger

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This book is printed on acid-free paper

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To every person who has felt guilty or confused in the grocery store. May this book give you the permission to feel good about your familys food!

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Acknowledgments

Gratitude to my daughter, who asked me daily how many words I had written and patiently listened to me pound away at the keyboard while you worked on chores, cattle, homework, and sports. I hope you are half as proud of my work as I am of you.