We wrote about Peter Singer and Jim Mason’s new book The Way We Eat – Why Our Food Choices Matter a little while ago, but now the nice people in the book industry have given us a few copies. Since I’d already bought one, and since packed bookshelves don’t look as cool when they’re packed with a bunch of copies of the same book, and since I said I’d do this in the first place, it’s time for a contest! For a free hardcover copy of The Way We Eat – Why Our Food Choices Matter courtesy of the publisher (and postage by us), all you need to do with be one of the first 3 people to email us with the correct answers to the 3 questions below. Whoops, you’re too late! Congrats to TheRealPamela, Bush Eater and flutterby! If anyone else wants to enter just for the fun of it, I’ll give you $4.95 off of a t-shirt order, ’cause we gotta make room in the storage area for new crap.1) How many corporations did Singer and Mason approach for assistance in documenting how food is produced, and how many indicated that they were willing to help?
2) Approximately how many independent pig farms are currently in the USA? How many were there 30 years ago?
3) According to professor Vaclav Smil, author of Feeding The World, how much agricultural land would we need for everyone to eat as much meat as most Americans do?
Links with answers are here, here, and here.
