Dict Of Agricultural And Envir Book

After reading this book, I am considering never eating anything again. It is an eye-opening primer on industrial farming. The author takes different sorts of foodstuffs--one by one--and explains how they get to our plates, from start to finish. It is not a pretty story, unfortunately. Agribusiness is destroying the fragile ecosystems that support our agriculture just to make a buck. They are creating pests and weeds that are super-resistant to any control method, they are poisoning our meats and poultry with pharmeceuticals we don't want, and they are reducing our once-diverse agricultural bioculture to just a handful of species. And we have no choice but to eat it, because, after all, a girl or guy's gotta eat, right? Even organics are threatened by this agribusiness monster we've created. All for the sake of making a buck. Scary and sad.