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The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie Mcmillan Publisher Comments What if you cant afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldnt escape as she watched the debate about Americas meals unfold, one that urges us to pay foods true cost—which is to say, pay... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Unsettling of America : Cultural and Agriculture (77 Edition) by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments Berry's assessment of modern agriculture and its relationship to American culture--our health, economy, personal relationships, morals, and spiritual values--is more timely than ever. This new edition of Berry's work presents a a classic testament to the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Life Is a Miracle : an Essay Against Modern Superstition (00 Edition) by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments In "Life Is a Miracle", the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food by Gene Baur Publisher Comments Leading animal rights activist Gene Baur examines the real cost of the meat on our plates -- for both humans and animals alike -- in this provocative and thorough examination of the modern farm industry. Many people picture cows, sheep, pigs, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century by Dickson Despommier Publisher Comments A Library Journal Best Book of 2010 “A world-changing innovation whose time has come. The visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the worlds food supply and at the same time solving one of the gravest environmental crises facing us... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin Publisher Comments Drawing upon 40 years' experience as an ecological farmer and marketer, Joel Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat. From child labor regulations to food inspection... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Trade Paper
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Land, Power, and Poverty: Agrarian Transformation and Political Conflict in Central America (Thematic Studies in Latin America) by Charles D Brockett Publisher Comments Land, Power, and Poverty explores the development of the rigid and unequal structures of rural Central American society, the challenge in recent decades to those structures by a restive peasantry, and the role in these conflicts of five governments of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Return to Common Sense by John Ikerd Publisher Comments An intense and engaging story of personal transformation combined with sweeping analysis and a call for societal change based on shared insights of universal principles of humanity - our common sense.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hybrid: The History & Science of Plant Breeding by Noel Kingsbury Publisher Comments Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrots... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of the World's Food Supply by Marie Monique Robin Publisher Comments The result of a remarkable three-year-long investigation that took award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across four continents (North and South America, Europe, and Asia), The World According to Monsanto tells the little-... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture by Andrew Kimbrell Publisher Comments 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. The Fatal Harvest Reader brings together in an... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Protection of Maize Under the Mexican Biosafety Law: Environment and Trade by Alicia Gutirrez Gonzlez Publisher Comments This book analyzes the importance of maize worldwide and the special importance for Mexico as a center of origin and diversity (COD). By adopting a comparative approach, the analysis focuses on how developed and developing countries handle imports of... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price: $33.00 Used - Hardcover
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Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms by Nicolette Hahn Niman Publisher Comments Asked to head up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s environmental organization's "hog campaign," Nicolette Hahn Niman embarked upon a fascinating odyssey through the inner workings of the “factory farm” industry. What she discovered transformed her... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Contesting Agriculture: Cooperativism and Privatization in the New Eastern Germany (Suny Series in the Anthropology of Work) by Hans C. Buechler Book News Annotation Two professors of anthropology analyze the effects of the privatization of agriculture in eastern Germany since the demise of communism. The impact of the transition on farmers' concepts of their own identities a central theme. The text is based... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding by Noel Kingsbury Publisher Comments Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrots... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms by Nicolette Hahn Niman Publisher Comments When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., first asked Nicolette Hahn Niman to head up his environmental organization's "hog campaign," she balked. Investigating hog manure pollution was hardly the glamorous assignment she pictured when leaving everything to work for... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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French Beans and Food Scares: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age by Susanne Elizabeth Freidberg Publisher Comments From mad cows to McDonaldization to genetically modified maize, European food scares and controversies at the turn of the millennium provoked anxieties about the perils hidden in an increasingly industrialized, internationalized food supply. These food... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $27.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Food (Polity Resources) by Jennifer Clapp Publisher Comments Food is one of the most basic resources that humans need for daily survival. Forty percent of the world’s population gains a livelihood from agriculture and we all consume food. Yet control over this fundamental resource is concentrated in... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Seeds of Sustainability: Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution in Agriculture by Pamela Matson Publisher Comments Seeds of Sustainability is a groundbreaking analysis of agricultural development and transitions toward more sustainable management in one region. An invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, and students alike, it examines new approaches... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Trade Paper
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Meat: A Benign Extravagance by Simon Fairlie Publisher Comments Meat is a groundbreaking exploration of the difficult environmental, ethical and health issues surrounding the human consumption of animals. Garnering huge praise in the UK, this is a book that answers the question: should we be farming animals, or not... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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