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Book Review: Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal — Joel Salatin

Food Politics

As a visionary and creative entrepreneur working outside the government- and university-sponored system, Joel Salatin’s efforts are continually hampered and his livelihood threatened. Everything he wants to do to provide clean, safe, humanely raised food to local consumers is illegal.

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Book Review: Against the Grain — Richard Manning

Food Politics

Richard Manning does a fine job in journalist style of putting forth the various elements that led to the adoption of agriculture and the problems it is causing both humans and the planet. Manning covers such diverse subjects as the development of the human brain, famine, cannibalism, diseases of agriculture, food taboos and fads, and how grains came to dominate the American landscape.

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Food Safety and the Future of the Family Farm

Food Politics

The health of your body and mind is directly tied to the health and quality of the food you consume. And you have a right to choose what food you want and from whom you want to buy it. Our government continually wants to step in in the name of “safety” and place onerous financial and logistical burdens on those who can least afford them: the family farmer.

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