Book reviews
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. We are entering a postindustrial era of food; for the first...
La Via Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants
If you actually look at what ‘peasant’ means, it means ‘people of the land.’ Are we Canadian farmers ‘people of the land’? Well, yes, of course. We too are peasants and it’s the land and our relationship to the land and food production that distinguishes us . . ....