My Year of Meats Ruth L. Ozeki Viking Press, New York, NY1998 Book Description Book Excerpt MHC Office of Communications Press Release. September 15, 2005 Ruth Ozeki, Chapin Auditorium Book Reviews Available via Academic Search Premier. (Search under Book Review) The Big Beef by Laura Shapiro Newsweek (08/18/1998) Publishers Weekly (03/30/1998) Biography Available via Biography Resource Center. Website http//:www.ruthozeki.com Further Readings about My Year of Meats Reading Guide Conversation with Ozeki For Readers' Group

Reference Resources Further Reading Internet Resources

Selected Reference Resources

• Encyclopedia Americana
  AE5 .E333 2001 Reference (look under Japan).
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
  (search for Japan or Meat Industry)

• Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture
  DS822.5 .E516 2002 Reference
• Heibonsha dai hyakka jiten = Encyclopedia Heibonsha
  AE35.2 .H44 1984 Reference
• The Asian American encyclopedia edited by Ng Franklin and John D. Wilson (managing editor)
  E184.O6 A827 1995
• Japan: A Country Study, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, edited by Helen Chapin Metz
  DS254.5 I742 Reference
  (or available online through the Library of Congress Country Studies website).
  

• Encyclopedia of food and culture / Solomon H. Katz, editor in chief;William Woys Weaver, associate editor;
  GT2850 .E53 2003 Reference
• Foods & nutrition encyclopedia / Audrey H. Ensminger ... [et al.];
  TX349 .F575 1994 Reference
• Encyclopedia of food and culture / Solomon H. Katz, editor in chief ; William Woys Weaver, associate editor.
  GT2850 .E53 2003
• The Oxford encyclopedia of food and drink in America / Andrew F. Smith, editor in chief.
  TX349 .E45 2004 Reference
• Encyclopedia of food science and technology.
  TP368.2 .E62 2000 Reference
  

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For further exploration of the themes and issues explored in My Year of Meats, you might enjoy:

Japan

• The pillow book of Sei Sh¯onagon. Translated and edited by Ivan Morris
  PL788.6.M3 E56 v.1 and v. 2
• Women in Japan : a country profile. Publisher New York : United Nations, 1998
• Japan: A Country Study, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, edited by Helen Chapin Metz
  DS254.5 I742 Reference (or available online through the Library of Congress Country Studies website).
• Broken silence : voices of Japanese feminism by Sandra Buckley HQ1762 .B76 1997
• Beef in Japan : politics, production, marketing & trade by John W. Longworth
• Japan Info

Japan and United States Relations: Beef in the News
(Search LexisNexis for more News articles)

• Bonza beef: Aussie meat safe, cheap in The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo), June 18, 2005 by Kumi Matsumaru
• U.S. Pressures Japan on Beef Import Ban, Associated Press Financial Wire, May 25, 2005 by Mari Yamaguchi
• Japan Works on Resuming U.S. Beef Imports, Associated Press Financial Wire, May 24, 2005 by Mari Yamaguchi
• Japan Still Bans U.S. Beef, Chafing American Officials in The New York Times April 21, 2005 by James Brooke
• U.S. lawmakers demand end to Japan's beef ban, The International Herald Tribune, April 20, 2005 by James Brooke
• A cow walk toward a crisis in The Japan Times, March 21, 2005

Meat and Meat Industry

Books

• Cattle: an informal Social History by Laurie Winn Carlson
  SF 195 C37 2001
• Cattle, economics, and development by R. Crotty
  SF197.8 .C76 (Hampshire College)
• Meat science and applications [electronic resource] edited by Y.H. Hui ... [et al.]
• Beyond beef : the rise and fall of the cattle culture by Jeremy Rifkin
  SF207 .R54 1992
  

• Factory farming : the experiment that failed : a compilation of articles and photographs with contributions by Rachel Carson ... [et al.]
  SF105 .F32 1987 Folio
• Old MacDonald’s Factory Farm: the myth of the traditional farm and the shocking truth about animal suffering in modern agribusiness
  by Davis C.Coats
  SF 140 L58 C63 1989
• Dead Meat by Sue Coe
  N6797.C55 A35 1995
• Animal factories by Jim Mason and Peter Singer
  SF51 .M37 1980 (Smith College)

• Daughters at Risk: A Personal D.E.S History by Stephen Fenichell
  KF228.N36 F46 (Amherst College)
• Cancer from beef : DES, federal food regulation, and consumer confidence by Alan I Marcus
  RA1270.F4 M37 1994 (Hampshire College)
• DES, the complete story by Cynthia Laitman Orenberg
  RA1242.D48 O74 (Hampshire College)
  

• Modern Meat by Orville Schell
  SF 98 A5 S34 1984
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  PS 3537 I85 J85 1972
• Cowboys of the Americas by Richard W. Slatta
  F596 .S63 1990

Government Documents

• Antibiotics in Animal Feed/ United States Congress
  SF8 A5 U6 1980
• Drugs in Livestock Feed/ United States Congress
  SF 98 M4 U56 1979 v.1
• Economic effects of a prohibition on the use of selected animal drugs/ United States Department of Agiculture
  SF98.M4 U58 1978 (Amherst College)
• Promote meat consumption : Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, second session on H.R. 11330, April 15, 1958 HD9415 .U55 1958 (Amherst College)
• Structural change in the meat, poultry, dairy, and grain processing industries [electronic resource] by Michael Ollinger ... [et al.]
  Published: [Washington, D.C. : United States Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 2005]
  

• Desertification : its causes and consequences compiled and edited by the Secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Desertification, Nairobi, Kenya, 29 August to 9 September, 1977
  GB611 .D45 1977
• Sowing the seeds for sustainability : agriculture, biodiversity, economics and society : proceedings of the Eight Interactive Session held at the Second IUCN World Conservation Congress, Amman, Jordan, 7 October 2000 edited by Rachel Wiseman and Liz Hopkins
  S494.5.S86 W677 2000 (Smith College)
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Secretariat

Journal Articles

• The true cost of meat. by Liz Else
  New Scientist, v. 183 (August 14 2004) p. 42-5
• The case against meat. by Jim E. Motavalli
  The Environmental Magazine, v. 13 no1 (Jan./Feb. 2002) p. 26-32.
• A cut above? The truth about meat package claims. by Paul McCarthy
  Health (New York, N. Y.), v. 20 (Feb. 1988) p. 23.
• Meat science
  

• It's a meat market. by Colin Tudge
  New Scientist, v. 181 (Mar. 13 2004) p. 19.
• The Fat of the Land: Do Agricultural Subsidies Foster Poor Health?by Scott Fields
  Environmental Health Perspectives, v. 112 no14 (October 2004) p. A821, A820, A822-A823
• COMMUNICATIONS, INNOVATION, AND TERRITORY:
  THE PRODUCTION NETWORK OF SWIFT MEAT PACKING AND THE CREATION OF A NATIONAL US MARKET.
  Journal of historical geography
  yr: 2003 vol: 29 iss: 4 pg: 599
  

• Disease's U.S. emergence highlights role of feed ban. by B.Harder
  Science News, v. 165 no2 (Jan. 10 2004) p. 19-20.
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in the United States--An Epidemiologist's View.by Christ A. Donnelly
  The New England Journal of Medicine, v. 350 no6 (Feb. 5 2004) p. 539-42.
• Study cites arsenic in poultry.by B. Harder
  Science News, v. 164 no17 (October 25 2003) p. 259-60

Environment

• Desertification : how people make deserts, how people can stop, and why they don't by Alan Grainger edited by Jon Tinker
  S616.S17 G73 1982
• Desertification: process, problems, perspectives : papers presented during a 14-week seminar series edited for publication by Patricia Paylore and Richard A. Haney
  GB611 .D48
• Desertification : natural background and human mismanagement by Monique Mainguet
  GB611 .M24 1994
• Desertification of the United States by David Sheridan
  GB614 .S53 (Amherst College)
  

• The Challenge of global warming edited by Dean Edwin Abrahamson
  QC981.8.G56 C42 1989
• Land use and the causes of global warming by W. Neil Adger and Katrina Brown
  HD156 .A34 1994
• The global warming desk reference [electronic resource] by Bruce E. Johansen.
• Ozone depletion : health and environmental consequences edited by Robin Russell Jones and Tom Wigley
  RA569.8 .O96 1989 (Hampshire College)

Health

• Encyclopedia of food by Jean Conil
  TX349 .C66 1996 (Smith College)
• Food and nutrition policy in a changing world edited by Jean Mayer and Johanna T. Dwyer, with Kathryn Dowd and Laura Mayer
  TX359 .F65
• Diet and health : scientific perspectives by Walter J. Veith
  RA784 .V45 1998 (Hampshire College)
• Nutritional concerns of women edited by Ira Wolinsky, Dorothy Klimas-Tavantzis
  RC622 .N8932 1996
  

• The food revolution : how your diet can help save your life and our world by John Robbins ; foreword by Dean Ornish.
  TX371 .R63 2001 (Smith College)
• Diet for a new America by John Robbins
  TX371 .R62 1987 (Amherst College)
• Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal by Eric Schlosser.
  TX715 .S2968 2001
  

• Hope's edge : the next diet for a small planet by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé.
  TX392 .L28 2002
• Diet for a small planet by Frances Moore Lappé ; illustrations by Marika Hahn
  TX392 .L27 1982
• The weaning of America : the case against dairy products and 12 other essays on ethics, animals and planetary survival by Don Lutz.
  TX392 .L86 1997 (Amherst College)
• Vegetarian nutrition edited by Joan Sabaté ; in collaboration with Rosemary Ratzin-Turner.
  RM236 .V43 2001 (Hampshire College)
  

• Transition to vegetarianism : an evolutionary step by Rudolph M. Ballentine
  TX392 .B297 1987 (Hampshire College)
• The philosophy of vegetarianism by Daniel A. Dombrowski
  TX392 .D65 1984
• The vegetable passion Barkas by Janet L.
  TX392 .B33
• 101 Reasons Why I am Vegetarian by Pamela Rice

Browse the catalog or the stacks in these call number areas:

• JQ1499-1799: Political Science
  
• GE 1-350: Environmental Sciences
  
• RA 1-1270: Public Aspects of Medicine
  
• RM 265-267: Antibiotics
  
• SF 1-1100: Animal Culture
  
• TX 341-840: Nutrition

Search for Articles using Databases:

• AGRICOLA
• EconLit
• Health Reference Center
• LexisNexis
• MedlinePlus
• PAIS International Archive
• PAIS International/Public Affairs Information Service

Search the catalog using some of the following Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Japan
• Political Culture -- Japan
• Japanese American
• Women's Right's-- Japan
• Feminism--Japan
• Sex Role-- Japan
• Meat
• Meat Industry and Trade
• Beef industry
• Nutrition-- United States
• Nutrition-- Asia
• Diet
• Vegetarianism

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Selected Internet Resources

• “Environmental Justice Made Manifest: Toxic Comedy, Documentary, and Ecofeminist Resistance in
  Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats “ By Cheryl J. Fish, Ph.D.

• 101 Reasons Why I am Vegetarian by Pamela Rice
• Earth Save International
• Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
• Citizens for Health
• Peta GoVeg Campaign
• Eat Well Guide
• Cattlemen's Beef Board
• American Meat Institute
• Beef, It's What's for Dinner!

• United States Department of Agriculture
• United States Department of Health and Human Services
• U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health: Nutrition
  

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