Book description
Part memoir, nutritional primer, and political manifesto, this controversial examination exposes the destructive history of agricultureācausing the devastation ofĀ prairies and forests, driving countless species extinct, altering the climate, and destroying the topsoilāand asserts that, in order to save the planet, food must come from within living communities. In orderā¦
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The importance of this book is less about human diets, and more about the food system itself. Keith explains in great detail that agriculture ā the growing of annual monocrops ā is the single most destructive activity humans have ever undertaken. Much of the planetās surface, formerly teeming with wildlife, has now been cleared, drained, plowed, fertilized, and dedicated to one species: humans.
This doesnāt mean all food production is destructive; Keith distinguishes between agriculture and other methods of growing food, like horticulture, wild-tending, and pastoralism. But the conclusion is simple. Weāre in overshoot, and agriculture is a big partā¦
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