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| Prologue | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Whole Horse: The Preservation of the Agrarian Mind | |
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| Global Monoculture: The Worldwide Destruction of Diversity | |
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| Machine Logic: Industrializing Nature and Agriculture | |
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| Industrial Agriculture's War against Nature | |
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| Hard Time for Diversity | |
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| The Impossible Race: Population Growth and the Fallacies of Agricultural Hope | |
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| Farming in Nature's Image: Natural Systems Agriculture | |
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| Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture | |
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| Industrial Agriculture Will Feed the World | |
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| Industrial Food Is Safe, Healthy, and Nutritious | |
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| Industrial Food Is Cheap | |
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| Industrial Agriculture Is Efficient | |
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| Industrial Food Offers More Choices | |
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| Industrial Agriculture Benefits the Environment and Wildlife | |
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| Biotechnology Will Solve the Problems of Industrial Agriculture | |
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| Monocultures of the Mind | |
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| Monoculture versus Diversity: The Illusion of Choice | |
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| Learning to See What You Are Looking At | |
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| Scale - Does It Matter? | |
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| A Blow to the Breadbasket: Industrial Grain Production | |
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| The Evolution of Industrial Vegetable Production | |
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| Pesticide Fields Forever? Berries and Melons | |
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| Industrially Grown Soybeans: Technology versus the Farmer | |
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| A Raw Deal for Consumers: The Business of Sugar Politics | |
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| The Fabric of Their Lies: Cotton's Devastating Legacy | |
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| Falling Far from the Tree: The Sterile World of Industrial Orchards | |
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| Grapes of Wrath: Wine's Chemical Dependency | |
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| Agricultural Landscapes in Harmony with Nature | |
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| The Ecological Impacts of Industrial Agriculture | |
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| Attempting to Control the Seed: From Hybridization to Genetic Engineering | |
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| The Seed as Machine: From Breeding to Hybridization | |
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| Untested, Unlabeled, and You're Eating It: The Health and Environmental Hazards of Genetically Engineered Food | |
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| Soil and Water: Vanishing Basics | |
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| Tilth and Technology: The Industrial Redesign of Our Nation's Soils | |
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| Water: The Overtapped Resource | |
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| Toxic Inputs: Industrial Agriculture's Killing Fields | |
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| Artificial Fertility: The Environmental Costs of Industrial Fertilizers | |
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| Hidden Dimensions of Damage: Pesticides and Health | |
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| Technological Takeover: Attempting to End the Agrarian Tradition | |
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| The Virtual Farm: Precision Farming and Technology Take Command | |
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| The New "Farmer" | |
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| Hydroponics: Removing the Soil and the Soul from Natural Farming | |
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| Nuclear Lunch: The Dangers and Unknowns of Food Irradiation | |
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| The Destruction of Wildlife Habitat by Agriculture | |
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| Can Agriculture and Biodiversity Coexist? | |
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| Wildlife Health | |
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| Our Forgotten Pollinators: Protecting the Birds and the Bees | |
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| The Growing Epidemic of Hunger in a World of Plenty | |
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| Corporate Takeover of Agriculture | |
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| Globalization and Industrial Agriculture | |
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| Intellectual Property: Enhancing Corporate Monopoly and Bioserfdom | |
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| The End of Agribusiness: Dismantling the Mechanisms of Corporate Rule | |
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| Uncle Ben: Goin' Organic Just Like We Used To | |
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| Organics at the Crossroads: The Past and the Future of the Organic Movement | |
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| The Ethics of Eating: Why Environmentalism Starts at the Breakfast Table | |
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| Fully Integrated Food Systems: Regaining Connections between Farmers and Consumers | |
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| The Quiet Revolution: Urban Agriculture - Feeding the Body, Feeding the Soul | |
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| Eco-labels: Promoting Alternatives in the Marketplace | |
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| Farming with the Wild: A Conservation Approach to Agriculture | |
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| Hope | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Selected References and Readings | |
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| Organizational Resources | |
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| Index | |