From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture

From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture

by Gary Holthaus
From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture

From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture

by Gary Holthaus

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Overview

In From the Farm to the Table, Gary Holthaus illuminates the state of American agriculture today, particularly the impact of globalization, through the stories of farmers who balance traditional practices with innovative methods to meet market demands. Holthaus demonstrates how the vitality of America's communities is bound to the successes and failures of its farmers. Farmers explain how their lives and communities have changed as they work to create healthy soil, healthy animals, and healthy food in a context of ineffective federal policy, growing competition from abroad, public misconceptions regarding government subsidies, the dangers of environmental damage and genetically modified crops, and the myths of modern economics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813146669
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 07/07/2020
Series: Culture of the Land
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 384
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Gary Holthaus is the author of several books, including Wide Skies: Finding a Home in the West, Circling Back, and Unexpected Manna.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xv

Part I In the Beginning

Chapter 1 Fundamentals 3

Chapter 2 Histories 10

Part II Farmers Talking about Farming

Chapter 3 Two Views, One Farm: Vance and Bonnie Haugen 29

Chapter 4 Farming Is a Spiritual Responsibility: Mike Rupprecht 60

Chapter 5 Timelines: Ron Scherbring 64

Chapter 6 The Absolute Last Thing I Ever Dreamed I'd Be Doing: Lonny and Sandy Dietz 76

Chapter 7 I Felt It Was Just the Right Thing to Do: Dennis Rabe 81

Part III Farming in America: Who Cares?

Chapter 8 They Say Eating Is a Moral Issue: Bill McMillin 109

Chapter 9 Farming Connects Us All 118

Part IV It all Works Together, or it Doesn't Work at All

Chapter 10 Agriculture and Community Culture 173

Chapter 11 Farming in Developing Countries 201

Chapter 12 The WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA, and the FTAA 205

Part V Alternative Visions, Hopeful Futures

Chapter 13 Healthy Food, Healthy Economics 247

Chapter 14 Alternatives for Agriculture and the Whole Culture 262

Part VI An Ecology of Hope

Chapter 15 Ours for a Short Time: Peggy Thomas 277

Chapter 16 An Ecology of Hope 281

Notes 309

Sources and Resources 326

Index 351

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