The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial AgricultureFatal 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. |
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XXXI | 167 |
XXXII | 181 |
XXXIII | 191 |
XXXIV | 199 |
XXXV | 208 |
XXXVI | 223 |
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| 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 |
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