Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Kimbrell, Andrew.

Description

1. xi, 384 pages : illustrations; 32 cm

Subject

1. Agricultural ecology > United States
2. Organic farming > United States
3. Agriculture > Environmental aspects > United States

Contents

1. Prologue / Douglas Tompkins -- Introduction / Andrew Kimbrell -- The Whole Horse: The Preservation of the Agrarian Mind / Wendell Berry -- Global Monoculture: The Worldwide Destruction of Diversity / Helena Norberg-Hodge -- Machine Logic: Industrializing Nature and Agriculture / Jerry Mander -- Industrial Agriculture's War against Nature / Ron Kroese -- Hard Time for Diversity / David Ehrenfeld -- The Impossible Race: Population Growth and the Fallacies of Agricultural Hope / Hugh H. Iltis -- Farming in Nature's Image: Natural Systems Agriculture / Wes Jackson -- Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture. Myth 1. Industrial Agriculture Will Feed the World. Myth 2. Industrial Food Is Safe, Healthy, and Nutritious. Myth 3. Industrial Food Is Cheap. Myth 4. Industrial Agriculture Is Efficient. Myth 5. Industrial Food Offers More Choices. Myth 6. Industrial Agriculture Benefits the Environment and Wildlife.
2. Myth 7. Biotechnology Will Solve the Problems of Industrial Agriculture -- Monocultures of the Mind / Vandana Shiva -- Monoculture versus Diversity: The Illusion of Choice. Learning to See What You Are Looking At. Scale - Does It Matter? / Frederick Kirschenmann. A Blow to the Breadbasket: Industrial Grain Production. The Evolution of Industrial Vegetable Production. Pesticide Fields Forever? Berries and Melons. Industrially Grown Soybeans: Technology versus the Farmer. A Raw Deal for Consumers: The Business of Sugar Politics. The Fabric of Their Lies: Cotton's Devastating Legacy. Falling Far from the Tree: The Sterile World of Industrial Orchards. Grapes of Wrath: Wine's Chemical Dependency. Agricultural Landscapes in Harmony with Nature / Joan Iverson Nassauer. The Ecological Impacts of Industrial Agriculture / Miguel Altieri -- Attempting to Control the Seed: From Hybridization to Genetic Engineering. The Seed as Machine: From Breeding to Hybridization.
3. Untested, Unlabeled, and You're Eating It: The Health and Environmental Hazards of Genetically Engineered Food / Joseph Mendelson III -- Soil and Water: Vanishing Basics. Tilth and Technology: The Industrial Redesign of Our Nation's Soils / Peter Warshall. Water: The Overtapped Resource -- Toxic Inputs: Industrial Agriculture's Killing Fields. Artificial Fertility: The Environmental Costs of Industrial Fertilizers / Jason McKenney. Hidden Dimensions of Damage: Pesticides and Health / Monica Moore -- Technological Takeover: Attempting to End the Agrarian Tradition. The Virtual Farm: Precision Farming and Technology Take Command. The New "Farmer" Hydroponics: Removing the Soil and the Soul from Natural Farming / Mark Briscoe. Nuclear Lunch: The Dangers and Unknowns of Food Irradiation / Michael Colby -- The Destruction of Wildlife Habitat by Agriculture / George Wuerthner -- Can Agriculture and Biodiversity Coexist? / Catherine Badgley -- Wildlife Health / Kelley R. Tucker --
4. Our Forgotten Pollinators: Protecting the Birds and the Bees / Mrill Ingram, Stephen Buchmann and Gary Nabhan -- The Growing Epidemic of Hunger in a World of Plenty / Anuradha Mittal -- Corporate Takeover of Agriculture / A. V. Krebs -- Globalization and Industrial Agriculture / Debi Barker -- Intellectual Property: Enhancing Corporate Monopoly and Bioserfdom / Hope J. Shand -- The End of Agribusiness: Dismantling the Mechanisms of Corporate Rule / Dave Henson -- Uncle Ben: Goin' Organic Just Like We Used To / Jim Hightower -- Organics at the Crossroads: The Past and the Future of the Organic Movement / Michael Sligh -- The Ethics of Eating: Why Environmentalism Starts at the Breakfast Table / Alice Waters -- Fully Integrated Food Systems: Regaining Connections between Farmers and Consumers / Rebecca Spector -- The Quiet Revolution: Urban Agriculture - Feeding the Body, Feeding the Soul / Michael Ableman -- Eco-labels: Promoting Alternatives in the Marketplace / Betsy Lydon --
5. Farming with the Wild: A Conservation Approach to Agriculture / Daniel Imhoff -- Hope / Wendell Berry.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.