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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...
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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, Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat. He explains why local food is expensive and why the current system favors...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Economic Aspects of Animal Breeding
by Joel Ira Weller Publisher Comments This important book covers economic evaluation of genetic differences in animals, determination of breeding goals within an economic context and economic evaluation of breeding programs. During the last 50 years there have been great advances made in the...
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Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf: The Story of One Man, Two Cows, and the Feeding of a Nation
by Peter Lovenheim Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-264) and index....
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The Farmworkers' Journey
by Ann Aurelia Lopez Publisher Comments Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Over the course of ten years, Ann...
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Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture
by Dale Allen Pfeiffer Publisher Comments The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the United States show that ten calories of...
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Wendell Berry: Life and Work (Culture of the Land)
by Jason (edt) Peters Review "Those who admire Berry's work will want to pick up this book even if they may already own some of its contents, because there is no other single volume that paints so complete a portrait of this remarkable man." (Scott P. Richert, The University...
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Against the Grain : How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization (Rev 06 Edition)
by Richard Manning Publisher Comments In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in...
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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...
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Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, & Money
by Erik Marcus Publisher Comments Meat Market elevates the debate over animal agriculture. Erik Marcus exposes and clears away the exaggerated claims and counterclaims put forth by the meat industry and its opponents. In the process, Marcus presents a thorough examination of animal...
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Food for All: The Need for a New Agriculture (Global Issues)
by John Madeley Publisher Comments John Madeley offers a new approach to agricultural production and feeding the hungry. He outlines a low-external input approach, along with a re-integration of new farming practices like organic agriculture and permaculture, and a range of “green...
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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...
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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...
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Crisis & Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture (Our Sustainable Future)
by John E Ikerd Publisher Comments With the decline of family farms and rural communities and the rise of corporate farming and the resulting environmental degradation, American agriculture is in crisis. But this crisis offers the opportunity to rethink agriculture in sustainable terms...
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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...
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The Struggle for the Health and Legal Protection of Farm Workers: El Cortito (Hispanic Civil Rights)
by Maurice Jourdane Publisher Comments This book chronicles Jourdane's decade-long struggle to advocate for a state ban of the short hoe and his efforts to protect other civil and human rights of California field workers....
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The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply
by Ken Midkiff
Publisher Comments "We have given up to the agribusiness corporations a crucial part of our responsibility as human beings and we must now think of ways to take it back."- Wendell Berry, from the ForewordIn this eye-opening book, Sierra Club Director Ken Midkiff exposes...
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