The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Instead, it is to continue our debates on grounds that are swept free of agricultural romance, ideological localism, scientific ignorance, and elitist solipsism.
James E. McWilliams • Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
Through sheer will and ingenuity, we have constructed a civilization of unparalleled comfort and abundance—a monument to progress, undeniable in its achievements. And yet, beneath this polished façade, something festers.
Erik Rittenberry • The Comfortable Life is Killing You
Society can be destroyed when further growth of mass production renders the milieu hostile, when it extinguishes the free use of the natural abilities of society’s members, when it isolates people from each other and locks them into a man-made shell, when it undermines the texture of community by promoting extreme social polarization and splinterin
... See moreIvan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
Agro-industry, which abandoned the goal of producing the best food and strived to produce the most