This Land Is Their Land by Evaggelos G. Vallianatos
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This Land Is Their Land: How Corporate Farms Threaten the World
Food is nutrition, politics, ecology, and culture all rolled into one. Few would argue that there is a greater need than that of growing food without wrecking society and the land and poisoning the global ecosystem. What is necessary is to build this agriculture to the point it can produce enough food for all, and repair the social and ecological fabric of the world's countrysides. Yet "scientific" agriculture and agricultural policies ignore or attack the small family farm and peasant alternatives to conventional farming.
"Evaggelos Vallianatos, drawing not only from his proud Greek heritage and farming experiences, but from his life confronting government bureaucracy, sets forth in this rich and poignant book, the premise that in abandoning family farm agriculture to corporate agribusiness we not only place the very staff of life at peril along with our nation's rural culture, but we deny the age-old principles of economic and social justice without which democracy can not spread and flourish." --A.V. Krebs, author of The Corporate Reapers: The Book of Agribusiness
"This book brilliantly uncovers what has gone wrong in rural America and in a 'fast food,' globalized world. Vallianatos combines years of historical scholarship, a trying but useful career at EPA, and poignant childhood memories of family farming in his native Greece to produce a critical essay on the fate of American agriculture and democracy. Deeply disturbing, This Land is Their Land, is also an inspiring call for citizen action and social transformation." -Jefferson Boyer, professor of anthropology and founder, Goodnight Family Sustainable Program, Appalachian State University
Food is nutrition, politics, ecology, and culture all rolled into one. Few would argue that there is a greater need than that of growing food without wrecking society and the land and poisoning the global ecosystem. What is necessary is to build this agriculture to the point it can produce enough food for all, and repair the social and ecological fabric of the world's countrysides. Yet "scientific" agriculture and agricultural policies ignore or attack the small family farm and peasant alternatives to conventional farming.
"Evaggelos Vallianatos, drawing not only from his proud Greek heritage and farming experiences, but from his life confronting government bureaucracy, sets forth in this rich and poignant book, the premise that in abandoning family farm agriculture to corporate agribusiness we not only place the very staff of life at peril along with our nation's rural culture, but we deny the age-old principles of economic and social justice without which democracy can not spread and flourish." --A.V. Krebs, author of The Corporate Reapers: The Book of Agribusiness
"This book brilliantly uncovers what has gone wrong in rural America and in a 'fast food,' globalized world. Vallianatos combines years of historical scholarship, a trying but useful career at EPA, and poignant childhood memories of family farming in his native Greece to produce a critical essay on the fate of American agriculture and democracy. Deeply disturbing, This Land is Their Land, is also an inspiring call for citizen action and social transformation." -Jefferson Boyer, professor of anthropology and founder, Goodnight Family Sustainable Program, Appalachian State University
