Liz Carlisle
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“It's true that Doug and Anna live in their own universe, complete with its own language. Like Tuna McAlpine, the Crabtrees eschew the term "conventional" farming, preferring "chemically dependent." Doug can tell you exactly why. "We've been practicing agriculture foe approximately twelve thousand years and using poisons in great quantities for just sixty of them," he reasons, " so to label that 'convention' is a huge insult to eleven thousand nine hundred and forty years of agriculture.”
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“Even if they hadn’t been physically removed from their land, he observed, farmers around the world were experiencing a spiritual separation, as their jobs and landscapes became just as industrial as any city. “Monoculture, monoculture, monoculture,” Casey lamented. “It’s kind of like the rural person’s concrete—mind-numbing.”
― Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
― Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
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