Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved Inside America's Underground Food Movements

Name: Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved Inside America's Underground Food Movements
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ISBN: 9781933392110

ISBN-10: 1933392118

ISBN-13: 9781933392110

Edition: 2006

Authors: Sandor Ellix Katz, Sandor Ellix Katz, Sandor Ellix Katz

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An instant classic for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists. Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after being shipped thousands of miles and passing through inscrutable supply chains, and controlled by multinational corporations. In our system of globalized food commodities, convenience replaces quality and a connection to the source of our food. Most of us know almost nothing about how our food is grown or produced, where it comes from, and what health value it really has. It is food as pure corporate commodity. We all deserve much better than that. In The Revolution Will…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Publication date: 11/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Author of Wild Fermentation (book version, 9781931498234) and The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (9781933392110), both published by Chelsea Green.




Local and seasonal food versus constant convenience consumerism



Seed saving as a political act



Holding our ground : land and labor struggles



Slow food for cultural survival



The raw underground



Food and healing (or, beware the neutraceutical)



Plant prohibitions : laws against nature



Vegetarian ethics and humane meat



Feral foragers : scavenging and recycling food resources



Water : source of all life


Epilogue : bringing food back to earth