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Loading... Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarketby Brian Halweil
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Halweil has written an excellent and informative book. He clearly explains how our current food distribution system works (and where it fails us miserably), and describes a myriad creative, functioning solutions to problems stemming from our current food-growing and -distribution systems that we may not even have recognized as being connected to the agribusiness model. The main thing about this book was that many of the examples he gives are simple approaches, quite possible on the small and local scale--and in fact work best that way. It is a hope-filled book. I can't recommend it highly enough. We all eat, and this book makes it clear what the ramifications are of how and what we eat, and just how much power to improve our lives we have. Well-written, thorough, and yet an easy read. An important book. (  ) esterlibrarian | Oct 22, 2008 |  Well, this book was certainly interesting…but not so engaging for me as coming home to eat. There is a whole lot in this book that I was not aware of before reading it and while I understood that eating locally was preferable…until I read this, I only had a hit of the ideas behind they why of it all. It’s a fairly quick read and I do think Halweil makes a compelling case for necessity of a return to a more local food economies. I think this is probably a book that everyone should read. I give it a solid A. (  ) the_hag | Jun 29, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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Everyone everywhere depends increasingly on long-distance food. Since 1961 the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold. In the United States, food typically travels between 1,500 and 2,500 miles from farm to plate—as much as 25 percent farther than in 1980. For some, the long-distance food system offers unparalleled choice. But it often runs roughshod over local cuisines, varieties, and agriculture, while consuming staggering amounts of fuel, generating greenhouse gases, eroding the pleasures of face-to-face interactions, and compromising food security. Fortunately, the long-distance food habit is beginning to weaken under the influence of a young, but surging, local-foods movement. From peanut-butter makers in Zimbabwe to pork producers in Germany and rooftop gardeners in Vancouver, entrepreneurial farmers, start-up food businesses, restaurants, supermarkets, and concerned consumers are propelling a revolution that can help restore rural areas, enrich poor nations, and return fresh, delicious, and wholesome food to cities.
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