The Fatal Harvest Reader

The Tragedy Of Industrial Agriculture

Andrew Kimbrell
The Fatal Harvest ReaderPublished: 05/01/2002
Publisher: Island Press
384 p. 6 x 9
ISBN: 9781559639446
Paperback: $27.50
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Fatal Harvest takes an unprecedented look at our current ecologically destructive agricultural system and offers a compelling vision for an organic and environmentally safer way of producing the food we eat. The Fatal Harvest Reader brings together in an affordable paperback edition the essays included in Fatal Harvest, offering a concise overview of the failings of industrial agriculture and approaches to creating a more healthful and sustainable food system.

The large format The Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture, which includes more than 250 profound and startling photographs, is available in hardcover and paperback.

 

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Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology, by arrangement with Island Press.

Andrew Kimbrell is a public interest attorney, activist and author. He has been involved in public interest legal activity in numerous areas of technology, human health and the environment. After working eight years as the Policy Director at the Foundation for Economic Trends, Kimbrell established the International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) in 1994 and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) in 1997. Kimbrell has written several books and given numerous public lectures on a variety of issues. He has been featured on radio and television programs across the country, including The Today Show, the CBS Morning Show, Crossfire, Headlines on Trial, and Good Morning America. He has lectured at dozens of universities throughout the country and has testified before congressional and regulatory hearings. In 1994, the Utne Reader named Kimbrell as one of the world's leading 100 visionaries.

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