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Book Jacket FAIR FOOD
Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
ORAN B. HESTERMAN, PH.D.
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We can't fix the broken food system simply by changing what's on our plate: the answer lies beyond the kitchen. Now a renowned good food pioneer shares an inspiring vision for change

A host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and animals. But advice on what to do about it largely begins and ends with the admonition to "eat local or "eat organic."

Fair Food is an enlightening and inspiring guide to changing not only what we eat, but how food is grown, packaged, delivered, marketed, and sold. Oran B. Hesterman shows how our system's dysfunctions are unintended consequences of our emphasis on efficiency, centralization, higher yields, profit, and convenience—and defines the new principles, as well as the concrete steps, necessary to restructuring it. Along the way, he introduces people and organizations across the country who are already doing this work in a number of creative ways, from bringing fresh food to inner cities to fighting for farm workers' rights to putting cows back on the pastures where they belong. He provides a wealth of practical information for readers who want to get more involved.

Dr. Oran B. Hesterman is the president and CEO of Fair Food Network. For fifteen years he led the Integrated Farming Systems and Food and Society Programs for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, during which time he seeded the local food systems movement with over $200 million. A native of Berkeley, California, and a former professor of agronomy at Michigan State University in East Lansing, he currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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HARDCOVER
ISBN 978-1610390064
Pub date: 05/03/11
Price: $24.99/29.00 Canada
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
320 pages
Politics, Sociology
Selling Territory: W
Rights: First Serial, British Commonwealth,audio,electronic rights: PublicAffairs
Translation, dramatic rights: CreativeWell, Inc.

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ISBN 978-1610391023
Pub date: 06/05/12
Price: $14.99/17.50 Canada
5 1/2 x 8 /14
336 pages
Agriculture, Politics, Sociology
Selling Territory: W
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