Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
by:
Mark Schapiro (author)
Sun. Soil. Water. Seed. These are the primordial ingredients for the most essential activity of all on earth: growing food. All of these elements are being changed dramatically under the pressures of corporate consolidation of the food chain, which has been accelerating just as climate change is...
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Sun. Soil. Water. Seed. These are the primordial ingredients for the most essential activity of all on earth: growing food. All of these elements are being changed dramatically under the pressures of corporate consolidation of the food chain, which has been accelerating just as climate change is profoundly altering the conditions for growing food. In the midst of this global crisis, the fate of our food has slipped into a handful of the world’s largest companies. Seeds of Resistance 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.
Seeds of Resistance will touch many nerves for readers, including concerns about climate change, chronic drought in essential farm states like California, the proliferation of GMOs, government interference (or purposeful ignorance), 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. Seeds of Resistance will also present hopeful stories about farmers, consumer groups, and government agencies around the world that are resisting the tightening corporate squeeze on our food chain.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781510705760 (1510705767)
Publish date: 2018-09-18
Publisher: Hot Books
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
TITLE: Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply AUTHOR: Mark Schapiro EXPECTED PUBLICATION DATE: 18 September 2018 FORMAT: ARC ebook ISBN-13: 9781510705760 ______________________________ NOTE: I received an Advanced Readers Copy of this book from NetGalley. This review ...