The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture

Andrew Kimbrell

Island Press, 2002 - Business & Economics - 384 pages

Fatal Harvest takes an unprecedented look at our current ecologically destructive agricultural system and offers a compelling vision for an organic and environmentally safer way of producing the food we eat. It gathers together more than forty essays by leading ecological thinkers including Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, David Ehrenfeld, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, and Gary Nabhan. Providing a unique and invaluable antidote to the efforts by agribusiness to obscure and disconnect us from the truth about industrialized foods, it demostrates that industrial food production is indeed a "fatal harvest"--fatal to consumers, fatal to our landscapes, fatal to genetic diversity, and fatal to our farm communities.

As it exposes the ecological and social impacts of industrial agriculture's fatal harvest, Fatal Harvest details a new ecological and humane vision for agriculture. It shows how millions of people are engaged in the new politics of food as they work to develop a better alternative to the current chemically fed and biotechnology-driven system. Designed to aid the movement to reform industrial agriculture, Fatal Harvest informs and influences the activists, farmers, policymakers, and consumers who are seeking a safer and more sustainable food future.

Contents

• V: 3
• VI: 6
• VIII: 10
• IX: 15
• X: 19
• XII: 23
• XIII: 28
• XIV: 32
• XV: 37
• XVI: 38
• XVII: 39
• XVIII: 49
• XIX: 58
• XX: 65
• XXI: 76
• XXII: 77
• XXIII: 87
• XXIV: 92
• XXV: 106
• XXVII: 119
• XXVIII: 120
• XXIX: 121
• XXX: 130
• XXXI: 148
• XXXIII: 161
• XXXV: 166
• XXXVI: 167
• XXXVIII: 181
• XXXIX: 191
• XL: 199
• XLI: 208
• XLII: 223
• XLIII: 224
• XLIV: 225
• XLVI: 240
• XLVIII: 249
• XLIX: 264
• L: 265
• LI: 272
• LII: 283
• LIV: 288
• LVI: 295
• LVII: 303
• LVIII: 308
• LX: 317
• LXI: 323
• LXII: 331
• LXIII: 340
• LXIV: 355

About the author

Andrew Kimbrell is a public interest attorney, activist and author. He has been involved in public interest legal activity in numerous areas of technology, human health and the environment. After working eight years as the Policy Director at the Foundation for Economic Trends, Kimbrell established the International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) in 1994 and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) in 1997. Kimbrell has written several books and given numerous public lectures on a variety of issues. He has been featured on radio and television programs across the country, including The Today Show, the CBS Morning Show, Crossfire, Headlines on Trial, and Good Morning America. He has lectured at dozens of universities throughout the country and has testified before congressional and regulatory hearings. In 1994, the Utne Reader named Kimbrell as one of the world's leading 100 visionaries.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
• Editor: Andrew Kimbrell
• Publisher: Island Press, 2002
• ISBN: 1597262803, 9781597262804
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / General; Business & Economics / Industries / Agribusiness; Nature / Animals / Wildlife; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection