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Joel Salatin
Paperback
$ 25.00
epicurean and environmentally apt common people often struggle to understand and articulate the fundamental differences between the farming and food scheme they endorse and those boost by Monsanto and admirer . With splanchnic stories and humor from Salatin ’s half - century as a “ lunatic ” farmer , Salatin contrasts the differences on many levels : practical , unearthly , social , economic , ecological , political , and nutritional .
In today ’s conventional food - production paradigm , any farm that is open - sourced , compost - fertilise , pasture - based , portably - infrastructured , solar - ride , multi - speciated , intemperately people , and soil - construction must be operated by a lunatic . Modern , normal , reasonable farmers raise “ No Trespassing ” augury , deplete filth , adoration annuals , apply rock oil - based chemicals , produce only one commodity , erect Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations , and discourage young the great unwashed from farming .
Anyone looking for ammunition to defend a more localized , solar - repulse , diversified food scheme will discover an integral arsenal in these Page . With learning ability and humor hone during countless hours working on the farm he love , and then interacting with established naysayers , Salatin brings the land to biography , farm to sacredness , and food to ministry .
Divided into four main section , the first slew with principles to nurture the land , an idea mainline farming has never really endorsed . The second segment describes food and fiber production , including the notion that most Fannie Farmer do n’t care about nutrient compactness or mouthful because all they desire is shipability and intensity . The third department , style “ Respect for Life , ” present an excusatory for food sacredness and agriculture as a healing ministry . Only lunatics would desire less machinery and pathogenicity . Oh , the ecstasy of not using drugs or pay banker . How sad . The net section deals with promoting community , include the whim that more farmers would be a good thing .
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