Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply

Mark Schapiro

Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Country
United States
Published
31 January 2023
Pages
192
ISBN
9781510772540

Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply

Mark Schapiro

Sun. Soil. Water. Seed. These are the primordial ingredients for the most essential activity of all: growing food.

All of these elements are being changed dramatically under the pressures of corporate consolidation of the food chain, which has been accelerating just as climate change is profoundly altering the conditions for growing food. In the midst of this global crisis, the fate of our food has slipped into a handful of the world’s largest companies. Seeds of Resistance will bring home what this corporate stranglehold is doing to our daily diet, from the explosion of genetically modified foods to the rapid disappearance of plant varieties to the elimination of independent farmers who have long been the bedrock of our food supply.

This book will touch many nerves for readers, including concerns about climate change, chronic drought in essential farm states like California, the persistence of the junk food culture, the proliferation of GMOs, and the alarming domination of the seed market and our very life cycle by global giants like Monsanto. But not all is bleak when it comes to the future of our food supply. Seeds of Resistance also presents hopeful stories about farmers, consumer groups, and government agencies around the world that are resisting the tightening corporate squeeze on our food chain.

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