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Author: Eric Schlosser

Tags: economics non-fiction meat connections social_justice public_health

Description: Required reading. Fast Food Nation covers the history and breadth of the fast foo industryRequired reading. Fast Food Nation covers the history and breadth of the fast foo industry in the US, starting before there was a McDonald's, travelling through the potato farms and slaughterhouses, and ending in the driver's seat. It is an in-depth look (though limites to the US) covering the technology of burgers, the ethics of meat, the labor involved... excellent....

2006-08-05

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Type: educational

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Author: Jeffrey Sachs

Tags: economics poverty africa non-fiction connections social_justice

Description: Required reading. I haven't yet finished this but I was in love from page one. This bookRequired reading. I haven't yet finished this but I was in love from page one. This book takes the end of poverty and makes it real, makes it a possibility. Sachs delves into economic history a long way back and proposes that we are at a point in that history where if we want to do something to end certain kinds of suffering, we can. And then he tells us how. So it's up to us. Got it? Got it....

2006-08-05

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Author: Tracy Kidder

Tags: poverty non-fiction connections haiti tuberculosis latin_america social_justice public_health

Description: Required reading. The story of Dr. Paul Farmer who I had not heard of before but who is nowRequired reading. The story of Dr. Paul Farmer who I had not heard of before but who is now among my heros. A Harvard-educated MD, he established a clinic in Haiti before his residence was over, because he couldn't wait to start changing things for the better. He founded the non-profit Partners in Health, which now works around the world providing care to people as well as lobbying for issues where others had given up. Particularly inspiring is the horror of knowing the job will never be finished...but it doesn't stop him from trying. An easy read....

2006-08-05