Customer Reviews

The Organic Food Handbook: A Consumer's Guide to Buying and Eating Organic Food

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is a nice overview to the organic food market, but buyers beware. The industrial organic market has co-opted the organic movement, complete with all the trappings of industrial agriculture. The organic market today is less about enhancing soils and more about enhancing sales, less about farm and farm worker safety, health and economics than about bottom line, profit margins and myth-making. I suggest you take the points made in this book and do your own research. What mega-corporations own yoru favorite organic brand? Local trumps Big Organic every time. I am a small scale organic farmer who cannot afford the high cost of organic certification, but invite my customers to learn and participate in organic growing through my CSA. We debate the morality and myth-making of industrial organic, especially as it appears in your supermarket, regularly. Know your farmer - buy (or grow) local.

"Ken Roseboro's "The Organic Food Handbook" has simplified the world of organic food and agriculture, making it quick and convenient for anyone to gain a new level of knowledge about organics in just one afternoon. Ken's book is the best "Organic food 101" that I have read to date--it is jam packed with vital information for everyone, from students to CEO's. I made lot's of notes and plan on keeping it on my desk to use as a valued resource."

Coral Rose,
President,
Eco-Innovations Sustainable Textiles Sustainability Consulting

It is very informative and is good to introduce or extend limited knowledge of Organics. I'm always looking for more in depth details about organics to add to my current level of knowledge. This book is a good intro for a friend or family member to get them started on their path to understanding why organic food is so important.