Thomas F. Pawlick

The War in the Country (eBook, ePUB)

How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rural life in North America has changed dramatically since the days of the family farm, when people worked the same land for generations, let their cows graze in pastures and their chickens scratch in dirt, and sold their produce locally. The few remaining small farmers now struggle to survive, strangled by debt and a rash of complex regulations designed to drive them out of business. In their place are corporate-backed factory farms with little understanding of, or sympathy for, rural life. But the corporate and political interests determined to make this life extinct are meeting with fierce resistance. In this passionate and persuasive book, writer and farmer Thomas Pawlick uses his own rural community as a microcosm for the battle between industrial agriculture and local farming - a clash whose outcome will determine the future of rural life in North America - and also the quality and sustainability of our food, water, soil, and air.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greystone Books
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781926812328
• Artikelnr.: 38369427

Autorenporträt

Thomas F. Pawlick has more than thirty-five years of experience as a journalist and editor, specializing in science, environmental, and agricultural reporting. He is a three-time winner of the Canadian Science Writers' Association Award and received a National Magazine Award for his agricultural reporting. Pawlick is the author of three books, including the best-selling Greystone title The End of Food. He served six years as chief editor of Ceres magazine, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's flagship publication. He currently lives on a 150-acre farm in eastern Ontario.