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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)

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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.

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.