Organic Manifesto How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe

Name: Organic Manifesto How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
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ISBN: 9781609611361

ISBN-10: 1609611365

ISBN-13: 9781609611361

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Authors: Maria Rodale, Eric Schlosser

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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment. She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government's role in allowing such practices to flourish. She further explains that modern organic farming would not only help reverse climate change by reducing harmful carbon emissions and soil depletion, but would also improve the quality of the food we eat, reduce diseases from asthma to cancer, and ensure a better…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Publication date: 3/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.39" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction



The Great Chemical Experiment (In Which We Are All Guinea Pigs)



We Have Poisoned Our Soil, Our Water, and Our Air



We Have Poisoned Ourselves and Our Children



The Tortuous Journey to Our Extinction



Chemical Farming Today



The Birth of Our Chemical Addiction



How Industry and the Government Have Betrayed Us



The Age of Healing



Organic Farming Today



The Truth about Modern Organic Farming



Five Solutions That Might Save Us


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index