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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/086...29546060_email
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Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and
Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against
both our grain and nature's. Drawing on the work of anthropologists,
biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own
travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills-overpopulation,
erosion, pollution-but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in
the devil's bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers
personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to
resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and
the planet's.
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I know it doesn't prove anything, but at least I, and Jarod Diamond,
aren't alone in this belief.


I can't believe that I found another book to read :O(

hehehe, always more to read.

I'm doomed. I'm 10 pages into it, and it is an effortless read. The
worst thing about it is the number of books the he mentions as asides.
They fall like feathers in molting season. If you liked "Omnivore", then
you'll love
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
http://www.amazon.com/Against-Grain-...ivilization/dp
/0865477132/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368389425&sr=1-1&keywords=Aga
inst+the+grain+%3A+how+agriculture+has+hijacked+ci vilization+%2F+Richard+
Manning

From Booklist
A growing body of somewhat controversial scholarship ties the beginnings
of war to the "culture of scarcity" that emerged with the invention,
sometime in the Neolithic era and probably in the eastern Mediterranean,
of agriculture. Before that, these theorists contend, humans lived as
hunter-gatherers who were, far from the common vision of the
half-starved caveman, quite comfortable and well-fed, because their diet
was both varied and seasonal. The investment of time and energy to grow
a few crops led, paradoxically, to both great excess and horrific want;
when the crops failed, famine followed among people whose population had
swelled beyond the small tribes of the earlier peoples. These theories
are regularly bruited about at academic meetings, but rarely are they
the subject of popular writing (Daniel Quinn's 1992 novel Ishmael
constitutes an exception). Manning brings theory to life with
well-crafted essays that cover such diverse subjects as the Irish potato
famine and the controversy over bioengineered plants. Readable and
well-researched, this book unsettles as it informs.
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I have a sinking feeling.

Tomatoland : how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most
alluring fruit
http://www.amazon.com/Tomatoland-Ind...stroyed-Alluri
ng/dp/1449423450/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=136839 0807&s
r=1-1&keywords=Tomatoland+%3A+how+modern+industrial+ag riculture+destroyed
+our+most+alluring+fruit

Looks like it is good too :O(


The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food by
Kaayla T. Daniel
http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Soy-Stor.../0967089751/re
f=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368391029&sr=1-1&keywords=The+whole+soy+sto
ry+%3A+the+dark+side+of+America%27s+favorite+healt h+food+%2F+Kaayla+T.+Da
niel.

Too early to tell. The writing seems a little pedantic to my taste, but
all the elements for a good, corporate conspiracy are here.


I think I'm running out of bookmarks.

--
Remember Rachel Corrie
http://www.rachelcorrie.org/

Welcome to the New America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg