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Jessica
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The authors in their preface: "We make no bones about the fact that what we present is our personal take on several complex issues." Science be damned! Current fav: Q: "If our modern food system is so bad...why do we now enjoy...longer and healthier lives..." A: Pharma & medical care, OSHA, no recent major wars, shall I continue? Ugh: use of the word "activist" over less loaded words (proponent, supporter, believer)
— Dec 15, 2016 08:17PM
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Jessica
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The entirety of the authors' description about Lebensraum (and it's failure) is "We all now how this one ended."
I can't even begin to imagine the series of people who had to read through that line before this book got to publication who all thought it was okay to sum up the Holocaust with that one line while also indicating that growing grains in Germany resulted in the Holocaust.
— Dec 26, 2016 08:27AM
I can't even begin to imagine the series of people who had to read through that line before this book got to publication who all thought it was okay to sum up the Holocaust with that one line while also indicating that growing grains in Germany resulted in the Holocaust.
Jessica
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Insights! 1. The locavore movement must have changed significantly in the last 4 years 2. The authors use the most extreme form of locavorism & the inherent non-logical complaints/solutions within & refute it with equally extreme & non-logical globalism complaints/solutions. There is absolutely no attempt to actually find a reasonable answer to agriculture for a growing planet. Their universal dismissal is vapid.
— Dec 22, 2016 12:51PM
Jessica
is on page 87 of 288
HAS to be a vanity press. Between being disdainful/insulting & not being maintaining the thread of their own argument this book is a mess. "Agri-intellectuals." Problems: preserving farmland AND building vertical farms. More refs to citrus in Maine (who?!?!) Lots of saying what will be said & then quoting someone else. Usually irrelevant like the window analogy. Summ: Out-of-context facts tossed into a word salad.
— Dec 20, 2016 06:52PM
Jessica
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I don't know what the hell these two are on about. More loaded language (CSAs are "schemes.") The take-away reads: don't eat produce grown anywhere near you, ever, because farmers are crooks and consumers are so very stupid. A few %s thrown around in the last paragraph to set up the next chapter because, you know, they're economists. Thinking there must be real argument in Canada over this that I am unaware of.
— Dec 18, 2016 06:13PM
Jessica
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A very broad overview of global food system with emphasis on France. Lots of interesting historical example of closed agriculture, but bare minimum on details. Continues to misconstrue "locavore" to 'back to the land" et al., but clearly intends to launch the rest of argument from this base. None of the examples provide information on their economic feasibility even though that is what the proposed focus is.
— Dec 18, 2016 05:26PM
Jessica
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"It is our hope that readers come away from this book with the understanding that buying or abstaining from buying local food should be a shopping decision, not a moral or political one." Because you should never give a shit about what you support morally or politically! Mo' money... FYI: authors from Canada.That note is about as relevant as most of what I've read of this book so far. It's gonna be a long read.
— Dec 15, 2016 08:23PM
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I'm gonna have to keep notes cause these folks are either being intentionally obtuse or being intentionally inflammatory. They allow Blake Hurst to set the tone on the very first page with a statement comparing the idea of food miles as "horse manure" "...in the same way that we know we wont' get to take the prettiest girl home is we drink Bud Light." What the hell is that?
— Dec 15, 2016 08:08PM
