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Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture by Darrin Nordahl Publisher Comments Public Produce makes a uniquely contemporary case not for central government intervention, but for local government involvement in shaping food policy. In what Darrin Nordahl calls municipal agriculture, elected officials, municipal planners, local... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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No More Bull!: The Mad Cowboy Targets America's Worst Enemy: Our Diet by Howard F Lyman Publisher Comments In 1996, when Howard Lyman warned America on The Oprah Winfrey Show that Mad Cow Disease was coming to America, offended cattlemen sued him and Oprah both. Not only were Lyman and Oprah vindicated in court, but events have proved many of Lyman's... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition 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) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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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: $8.50 Used - 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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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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Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat by Howard Lyman Publisher Comments When former cattle rancher Howard Lyman appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1996 to share his insider view of the danger of Mad Cow Disease spreading to this country, his revelations about the beef industry prompted a group of Texas cattlemen to file a... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments Six essays on sustainability and stewardship appear in this edition. One of America's most important cultural critics, Wendell Berry, urges that people learn once more to care for their local communities, and so begin a healing that might spread over our... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat by Howard F Lyman Publisher Comments Howard Lyman's testimony on The Oprah Winfrey Show revealed the deadly impact of the livestock industry on our well-being. It not only led to Oprah's declaration that she'd never eat a burger again, it sent shock waves through a concerned and vulnerable... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Where Our Food Comes from: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan Publisher Comments The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Revolution on the Range: The Rise of a New Ranch in the American West by Courtney White Publisher Comments In the final decade of the twentieth century, the American West was at war. Battle lines had hardened, with environmentalists squarely on one side of the fence, and ranchers on the other. By the mid-1990s, debates over the region’s damaged land had... (read more) List Price $31.75 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture by Andrew Kimbrell Publisher Comments Fatal Harvest takes an unprecedented look at our current ecologically destructive agricultural system and puts forth a compelling vision for an organic and environmentally safer way of producing the food we eat. It includes more than 250 profound and... (read more) Your price: $45.00 Used - 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: $8.00 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) List Price $23.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Family Farming: A New Economic Vision by Marty Strange Publisher Comments Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial agribusiness takes over. The prevailing sentiment is that family farms should survive for important social, ethical, and economic reasons. But will they? This timely book... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Sustainable Future #15: Raising a Stink: The Struggle Over Factory Hog Farms in Nebraska by Carolyn Johnsen Publisher Comments In Nebraska, as in many states across the nation, factory farms housing tens of thousands of hogs have altered the physical, cultural, and economic landscape, and have generated complex and deeply divisive conflicts among family farmers... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Greener Pastures: Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution (University of Toronto Centre for Public Management Monograph) by Elizabeth Brubaker Publisher Comments As farms increase in size and become increasingly industrialized, the problem of agricultural pollution is gaining urgency across Canada. The response from most environmentalists and provincial governments is to push for more centralized regulation. In... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Family Farming: A New Economic Vision by Marty Strange Publisher Comments Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial farming takes over. The prevailing sentiment is that family farms should survive for important social, ethical, and economics reasons. But will they? Possibly not... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Meat You Eat : How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply (05 Edition) 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 $14.95 Your price: $8.00 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 In Raising Less Corn, More Hell George B. Pyle shows us how the famous breadbasket of America is being bought up by large corporations, who produce less food per acre than the small farmer, push those farmers further into debt, pollute the earth and wear... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Hardcover
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