A nation of farmers : defeating the food crisis on American soil /
Once we could fill our grocery carts with cheap and plentiful food, but not anymore. Cheap food has gone the way of cheap oil. Climate change is already reducing crop yields worldwide. The cost of flying in food from far away and shipping it across the country in refrigerated trucks is rapidly becom...
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Gabriola Island, B.C. :
New Society Publishers,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the big lie
- A fast train : food security in crisis
- Hands on the wheel : what we should be getting from our food system
- Ring the bell : it starts with how we eat
- God's away on business : what are our choices?
- Hard times come again no more : feeding the world
- The landslide brings it down : feeding ourselves
- The hands that built the country we're always trying to keep down : extending the table
- Keep your hand on the plow : transformations
- Recipe index
- A list of useful resources.
