| Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front Contributor(s): Salatin, Joel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0963810952 ISBN-13: 9780963810953 Publisher: Polyface OUR PRICE: $21.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2007 Annotation: Drawing upon 40 years experience as an ecological farmer, Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat. He explains why local food is expensive and why the current system favors industrial, corporate food systems. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - Agribusiness - Health & Fitness | Diet & Nutrition - Nutrition |
| Dewey: 363.809 |
| LCCN: 2007928608 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.26" W x 8.98" (1.29 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing upon 40 years' experience as an ecological farmer and marketer, Joel Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat. From child labor regulations to food inspection, bureaucrats provide themselves sole discretion over what food is available in the local marketplace. Their system favors industrial, global corporate food systems and discourages community-based food commerce, resulting in homogenized selection, mediocre quality, and exposure to non-organic farming practices. Salatin's expert insight explains why local food is expensive and difficult to find and will illuminate for the reader a deeper understanding of the industrial food complex. |
Contributor Bio(s): Salatin, Joel: - Joel Salatin and his family own and operate Polyface Farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The farm produces pastured beef, pork, chicken, eggs, turkeys, rabbits, lamb and ducks, servicing roughly 6,000 families and 50 restaurants in the farm's bioregion. He has written 11 books to date and lectures around the world on land healing, local food systems. |