Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (654 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01NA6SQFF |
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| Number of Pages | : | 418 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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His articles have been published in The Atlantic, Harpers, Mother Jones and The Guardian, and his documentary work has been featured on PBS’s Frontline.. About the AuthorMark Schapiro has won numerous journalism prizes for his investigative work, including the du Pont-Columbia University Award. He is the author of two widely praised books on urgent environmental issues, Carbon Shock and Exposed
Mark Schapiro has won numerous journalism prizes for his investigative work, including the du Pont-Columbia University Award. His articles have been published in The Atlantic, Harpers, Mother Jones and The Guardian, and his documentary work has been featured on PBS’s Frontline
These are the primordial ingredients for the most essential activity of all on earth: growing food. Food Chained will bring home what this corporate stranglehold is doing to our daily diet, from the explosion of genetically modified foods to the rapid disappearance of plant varieties to the elimination of independent farmers who have long been the bedrock of our food supply.Food Chained will touch many nerves for readers, including concerns about climate change, chronic drought in essential farm states like California, the persistence of the junk food culture, the proliferation of GMOs, and the alarming domination of the seed market and our very life cycle by global giants like Monsanto.But not all is bleak when it comes to the future of our food supply. Soil. In the midst of this global crisis, the fate of our food has slipped into a handful of the world’s largest companies. Water. Sun. All of these elements are being changed dramatically under the pressures of corporate consolidation of the food chain, w