"Fatal Harvest" may be the most important book on agriculture yet published in this young 21st century. Perhaps it will help lead us into the needed transformation of our food industry. This treasure, sub-titled "The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture," offers essays by over 40 environmentalists and more than 250 color photos.
If you are concerned about what you eat and the fate of the Earth, read "Fatal Harvest." The title's first word is harsh, but our current food situation merits such strong words, and the book's final section details solutions to the problem the book accurately describes. One would have to read many volumes to get what editor Andrew Kimbrell and associates have skillfully assembled within this single book's covers.
By "fatal" the book means fatal to consumers, rivers, lakes, oceans, diversity, farm communities, and potentially the planet itself. The critique is total - of the industrial model, multinational corporations, the global economy, and pesticides. Various writers articulate the damage to wildlife, biodiversity, and cultures.
Kentucky farmer and writer Wendell Berry opens and closes the book with the precision and insight that make him our most important contemporary writer on agriculture. He writes here about the preservation of agrarianism - a practice, attitude, loyalty and passion, based on a close association with the land.
If you are concerned about what you eat and the fate of the Earth, read "Fatal Harvest." The title's first word is harsh, but our current food situation merits such strong words, and the book's final section details solutions to the problem the book accurately describes. One would have to read many volumes to get what editor Andrew Kimbrell and associates have skillfully assembled within this single book's covers.
By "fatal" the book means fatal to consumers, rivers, lakes, oceans, diversity, farm communities, and potentially the planet itself. The critique is total - of the industrial model, multinational corporations, the global economy, and pesticides. Various writers articulate the damage to wildlife, biodiversity, and cultures.
Kentucky farmer and writer Wendell Berry opens and closes the book with the precision and insight that make him our most important contemporary writer on agriculture. He writes here about the preservation of agrarianism - a practice, attitude, loyalty and passion, based on a close association with the land.