Soybeans: An A to Z Book

by Susan Anderson

The Awesome Agriculture A to Z books introduce young readers to agriculture by providing basic information about the seven major food sources: Cattle, Corn, Dairy, Pigs, Poultry, Soybeans, and Wheat. The information is presented simply and to the point. Readers learn where these foods come from, how they are used, and their relationship to the economy, the environment, and energy consumption. Using twenty letters in the alphabet to identify informational points gives the A to Z books a unity and provide a handy summary, from book to book, of the most important things a child should know about the seven food sources. To make the A to Z books fun to read, stylized caricatures of food products will talk directly to the children by means of a cartoon dialog ballon. The caricatures will help explain what is shown on the page or ask thoughtful questions that relate directly to the visual material.

32 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published November 1, 2008

Reviews

[Skadi · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is an industry-funded propaganda manual to brainwash children into thinking that industrial agriculture is good, necessary, and beneficial. Better to let your kids watch Food, Inc. and to have a discussion with them how chemical corporations like Monsanto and Syngenta and the processed food industry, with the help of the U.S. government, destroyed the American family farm and highjacked our food supply. Soy, corn, wheat, livestock, eggs, poultry produced with dangerous chemicals, genetic tampering, and cruelty are making America fat and sick, destroying the soil, contributing majorly to global warming, and putting our food supply in the hands of chemists and corporate executives, Susan Anderson is the daughter of farmers who sold out, and she is the mouthpiece of Big Chem, the folks who financed her Monsanto Manifesto. Joanne Buggey is an authority on nothing who hasn’t been in the classroon since the early 80s and writes about topics authoritatively even when she knows nothing about them.

[Gemma · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book, like all the books in this series, is a shameless attempt by the chemical industry (Monsanto, Syngenta, etc.) to indoctrinate children into a factory farm mentality, and to accept the radical, destructive, and unhealthy practices of industrialized farming. These practices which are fossil-fuel and chemical intensive are fairly new practices imposes on American agriculture by the chemical industry, since it, with the help of the USDA, put the traditional family farm out of business with its draconian farm policies. The factory farms that grow these crops are not in the business of growing food, but rather in the business of growing export crops and the raw materials of processed fake food responsible for making our children fat and sick. These crops are subsidized not based on demand, but on how much the corporate-owned farmers can grow until there is a surplus in the thousands of tons and cost taxpayers billions that go in the pockets of billionaires. Books in this series should be banned in all classrooms as it is propaganda, brainwashing, and deceptively one-sided.

[Nichole · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple alphabet book about soybeans.