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Maria Rodale and
Eric Scholsser (foreword by)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Rodale Pr
Publication date
March 16, 2010
Pages
208
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781605294858
ISBN-10
1605294853
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.85 lbs.
Original list price
$23.99
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The Way We're Working Isn't Working | Altered Genes, Twisted Truth | The Bio-Integrated Farm | Scratch | Rodale's Basic Organic Gardening | The Omnivore's Dilemma | Why We Buy | The New Organic Grower | In Defense of Food
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Granddaughter to Rodale's founder, and its current CEO, the author offers a passionate, evenhanded, nonacademic argument for the overall wisdom, economical and ecological for farming organic. Deeply aware of the public confusion and suspicion surrounding organic farming as a hippie cause, Rodale first persuades readers that years of chemical and pesticide use have poisoned our environment not hard to do, considering elevated cancer levels, increases in asthma, and fertility disorders, among other afflictions attributed to environmental factors. Rodale places blame for U.S. reliance on chemical-saturated farming, especially employing the use of genetically modified seeds, mostly on powerful chemical companies' manipulative advertising doublespeak, but also on government protection of conventional farmers. In her strongest section delineating a year in the life of a chemical farmer, Rodale shares clarifying findings from her own focus group that these farmers become dependent on chemical companies for their products and can't see another way, even when costs keep going up, soil is depleted, and yields decrease. In the end, Rodale does a vigorous job of debunking myths plaguing both sides. (May) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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