Maybe you've eaten fresh soybeans--but you probably eat a lot more soybeans than you think. Soybeans are found in a lot of foods. They're made into soy milk and tofu and vegetable oil. They're hidden in meat. Find out more about soybeans--how they're grown and how they're made into foods you eat every day. Discover the story of your food--where it was grown, who grows it, and how it gets to your plate.

"Explores where the food we eat comes from and what the future of farming look like"--

Investigates the hidden connection between global food and global finance by asking the simple question: Why can't delicious, inexpensive, and healthy food be available to everyone on Earth? Reveals that money pouring into the global derivatives market in grain futures is having astonishing consequences that reach far beyond your dinner table, including the Arab Spring, bankrupt farmers, starving masses, and armies of scientists creating new GMO foods...

"Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these-rice, wheat, and corn-now provide fifty percent of all our calories. Dig deeper and the trends are more worrisome still: The source of much of the world's food-seeds-is mostly in the control of just...

Looks at farming and the ways that children from different cultures help in the production and distribution of food around the world, with attention paid to environmental and food supply issues.

Devin and Nadia are in a desperate race to stop a multinational corporation from gaining control of the food supply and ruining their mother's career.

"That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance-once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season, and we breed and clone the hardiest, best-tasting varieties of the crops we rely on most. As a result, a smaller proportion of people on earth go hungry today than at any other moment in the last thousand years, and the streamlining of our food supply guarantees that the food we buy, from bananas to...

Looks at the state of the food supply and food security in a world of rapidly expanding population, outlining the tremendous challenges humanity faces in the near future, and the scientists and farmers working to meet them in the face of a changing climate.

"Pairing the latest developments in nutritional and environmental science with an unflinching look at the dark realities of the global food system and the policies that make it possible, Food Fix is a hard-hitting manifesto that will change the way you think about -- and eat -- food forever, and will provide solutions for citizens, businesses, and policy makers to create a healthier world, society, and planet."--Amazon.com.

Looks at environmental and ethical topics related to agriculture and food production, touching on such issues as sustainability, animal welfare, genetic modification of crops, and fair trade practices.