So Shall We Reap (How everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed; and why, in practice, our immediate descendants are likely to be in serious trouble) [Paperback]

Colin Tudge (Author)

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Publication Date: August 26, 2004

A work that focuses on the relentless drive for maximum food production at rock-bottom cost. As health scares spiral, rural workers are driven off the land and poor nations are forced to export their goods in a cut-throat marketplace. Colin Trudge proposes an alternative, looking at the global food industry and showing how - without resorting to GM crops - corporate barons can be stripped of control, the world can be fed and humanity can survive.

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Colin Tudge is a freelance writer and researcher. His work has featured in the New Statesman, Farmer's Weekly, New Scientist and on the BBC. He is visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of Philosophy at the London School of Economics.

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books (August 26, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0141009500
• ISBN-13: 978-0141009506
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,914,306 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incendiary Thoughts on Enlightened Agriculture, March 5, 2007

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goosefish (Durham, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: So Shall We Reap (How everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed; and why, in practice, our immediate descendants are likely to be in serious trouble) (Paperback)

This book deserves far more attention than it has gotten. I am sorry to be the first reviewer after so many years. Tudge is very well-read and more open-minded than most. He puts together a thought-provoking re-assessment of agriculture that manages to criticize such counterintuitive targets as the local & organic food movements, vegetarians, and even democracy as it now stands. Amazingly, he even has good things to say about the mafia at one point. Of course, his real energy focuses on the ills of monocultures and factory-farmed livestock. But it's the underlying factors which Tudge best elucidates: hyper-capitalism, corporate domination, misdirected governments. While it's not an easy book to digest, I highly recommend it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars it makes so much sense, April 5, 2010

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This review is from: So Shall We Reap (How everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed; and why, in practice, our immediate descendants are likely to be in serious trouble) (Paperback)

Farming is an art and a craft. The message I kept receiving in this book was "harmony". I liked it so much that when I lost my original copy (which was brought to me from England) I decided I needed another.