Fatal
Harvest €54.40
The Tragedy of Industrial
Agriculture
Andrew Kimbrell (Ed)
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 includes more than 250 profound and startling
photographs and gathers together more than 40 essays by leading
ecological thinkers including Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson,
David Ehrenfeld, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, and
Gary Nabhan. Its scope and photo-driven approach provide a
unique and invaluable antidote to the efforts by agribusiness
to obscure and disconnect us from the truth about industrialized
foods.
The book`s many photographs and essays
offer graphic testimony to the tragic consequences of how
our food is produced. Readers will come to see that industrial
food production is indeed a `fatal harvest` - fatal to consumers,
as pesticide residues and new disease vectors such as E. coli
and `mad cow disease` find their way into our food supply;
fatal to our landscapes, as chemical runoff from factory farms
poison our rivers and groundwater; fatal to genetic diversity,
as farmers rely increasingly on high-yield monocultures and
genetically engineered crops; and fatal to our farm communities,
which are wiped out by huge corporate farms.
As it exposes the ecological and
social impacts of industrial agriculture`s fatal harvest,
the book also 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 will inform and influence the activists,
farmers, policymakers, and consumers who are seeking a safer
and more sustainable food future.
The Fatal Harvest Reader (also supplied
by Book STEPs) brings together in an affordable paperback
edition the essays included in Fatal Harvest. 396pp 2002 311x297mm
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