Food Fight The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill

Name: Food Fight The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill
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ISBN: 9780970950079

ISBN-10: 0970950071

ISBN-13: 9780970950079

Edition: 2011 (Revised)

Authors: Daniel Imhoff, Fred Kirschenmann, Michael Pollan

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Every five years, the U.S. Congress passes a little understood legislation called the Farm Bill. It is primarily accountable for setting the budgets and work plans for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But the Farm Bill is anything but bureaucratic trivia. Rather, it's is an essential economic and policy engine that drives the food and farming system. Just as importantly, it provides nutritional assistance to tens of millions of Americans--many of them children. In recent years, more and more citizens are realizing just how much is at stake in this political chess game. Originally published in 2007, Food Fight was Daniel Imhoff 's highly acclaimed primer on the 2008 Farm Bill. Now in a…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/24/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 8.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Michael Pollan is a contributing writer for "The New York Times Magazine" as well as a contributing editor at "Harper's" magazine. He is the author of two prizewinning books: "Second Nature: A Gardener's Education" & "A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder". Pollan lives in Connecticut with his wife & son.