The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture

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 gathers together more than forty essays by leading ecological thinkers including Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, David Ehrenfeld, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, and Gary Nabhan. Providing a unique and invaluable antidote to the efforts by agribusiness to obscure and disconnect us from the truth about industrialized foods, it demostrates that industrial food production is indeed a "fatal harvest"--fatal to consumers, fatal to our landscapes, fatal to genetic diversity, and fatal to our farm communities.

As it exposes the ecological and social impacts of industrial agriculture's fatal harvest, Fatal Harvest 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 informs and influences the activists, farmers, policymakers, and consumers who are seeking a safer and more sustainable food future.

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• Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture (Our Sustainable Future)
• The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
• The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach
• Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It
• Growing Up Empty: How Federal Policies Are Starving America's Children
• World Hunger: Twelve Myths (22)
• Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy Of Industrial Agriculture
• The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals
• The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High-Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers