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The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply by Ken Midkiff Publisher Comments We may be gambling with our lives whenever we purchase meat, milk, or eggs in a supermarket and every time we order a burger at a fast-food restaurant because agribusinesses have allowed unsafe and unhealthy products to be sold and consumed by an... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Agriculture by George Pyle Publisher Comments A revelatory, alarming, wide-ranging and readable cri de coeur on the state of agriculture in America.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Agricultural Markets Beyond Liberalization by Aad Van Tilburg Publisher Comments Agricultural markets have entered a long-term process of liberalization, with the aim of reducing imposed market imperfections such as monopolistic public trade, entry barriers and subsidies. The experience of more than a decade of agriculture... (read more) List Price $199.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply by Marie-monique Robin Synopsis Hailed as “a truly eye-opening view of how American business-as-usual really works” by the Daily Kos and “an alarming and uncompromising investigation” by Le Monde, The World According to Monsanto charts award-winning journalist and... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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French Beans and Food Scares : Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age (04 Edition) by Susanne 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: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply by Ken Midkiff Publisher Comments We may be gambling with our lives whenever we purchase meat, milk, or eggs in a supermarket and every time we order a burger at a fast-food restaurant because agribusinesses have allowed unsafe and unhealthy products to be sold and consumed by an... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 "As this powerful book makes clear, Monsanto's innovations create more problems than they solve-above all by helping to concentrate the food system in ever fewer hands, with baleful consequences for the world's small-scale farmers. It's the kind of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cash Flow Planning/Agriculture-94 by James D Libbin Publisher Comments Inadequate market planning, poor production planning, and absolutely terrible investment planning have all contributed to the severe financial crisis faced by many current farmers and ranchers. The cash flow statement can be the central focus of all... (read more) List Price $82.75 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints by Kurt Engelmann Publisher Comments The ties that bind Central Asia to the Middle East have strengthened dramatically in recent years, as political emancipation from Soviet rule has spurred the restoration of material culture shared by Turkic and Iranian peoples. Political institutions and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto by Osha Gray Davidson Publisher Comments Between 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled, interest payments jumped tenfold, profits fell by 10 percent, the number of farmers decreased by two-thirds, and nearly every farming... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security--From the Author of the International Bestseller the O by Masanobu Fukuoka Publisher Comments The earth is in great peril, due to the corporatization of agriculture, the rising climate crisis, and the ever-increasing levels of global poverty, starvation, and desertification on a massive scale. This present condition of global trauma is not... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - Hardcover
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The Death of Ramón González: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma by Angus Lindsay Wright Publisher Comments From reviews of the first edition: "Angus Wright has shown in a brilliant study [how] the imposition of high-yield agriculture helped to break apart the intimate relationship between cultures and ecosystems that had coevolved over long periods of time." ... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $20.37 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm by Linda Faillace Publisher Comments In the mid-1990s Linda and Larry Faillace had a dream: they wanted to breed sheep and make cheese on their Vermont farm. They did the research, worked hard, followed the rules, and, after years of preparation and patience, built a successful... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect and Inhumane Treatment Inside Th U.S. Meat Industry by Gail A Eisnitz Publisher Comments You may be getting more than just beef in that burger. This shocking book shows what "USDA Approved" really means. "I'd been documenting and exposing animal abuse for nearly 15 years. But nothing -- not the grisly cockfights nor the pathetic puppy mills,... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret by Duff Wilson Publisher Comments I see soil in a new light, and I wonder about my own lawn and garden. What have I sprinkled on my backyard? Is somebody using my home, my food, to recycle toxic waste? It seems unbelievable, outlandish -- but what if it's true? A riveting exposÉ... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Plant Genetic Resources and Food Security: Stakeholder Perspectives on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity) by Christine Frison Publisher Comments The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) is a pivotal piece of recent legislation, providing a route map for the use of such resources for sustainable agriculture and food security. Plant Genetic Resources... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $26.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's Farms and Farmland by Tom Daniels Publisher Comments Farmers, who own or rent most of the private land in America, hold the key not only to the nation's food supply, but also to managing community growth, maintaining an attractive landscape, and protecting water and wildlife resources. While the issue of... (read more) List Price $47.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Regenerating Agriculture: Policies & Practice for Sustainability & Self-Reliance by Jules N Pretty Book News Annotation Pretty, director of the Sustainable Agriculture Program at London's International Institute for Environment and Development, details the concepts of sustainable agricultural practices, drawing on 20 case studies and 50 projects in 28 countries to show... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea by Victor Davis Hanson Publisher Comments Eulogizing the vanishing lifestyle of the family farm, Victor Hanson calls for America to take notice of its lost simplicity and purity before it is too late. "Victor Davis Hanson . . . is a writer as much as a farmer. His memoir is complex--passionate... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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