Thomas F. Pawlick
Autor von The End of Food: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Food Supply--And What We Can Do About It
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The End of Food: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Food Supply--And What We Can Do About It (2006) 135 Exemplare
The Invisible Farm: The Worldwide Decline of Farm News and Agricultural Journalism Training (2001) 3 Exemplare
DEBT SENTENCE: How Canada's Student Loan System is Failing Young People and the Country (2012) 2 Exemplare
The War in the Country 1 Exemplar
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Carleton University
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Pawlick does a great job of using examples from his own part of Ontario to illustrate many of the challenges facing small-scale farmers, but also to show why we need them to win. Put simply, our food supply has been quietly taken over by big agribusiness with no interests in mind but their bottom line. Family farms not only produce better tasting food, but it's healthier as well. We need the small farmers to win, but the entire process is stacked against them: marketing boards are dominated by the big players, government programs are tailored to the interests and government inspectors are openly hostile to them.
He covers a wide variety of topics from marketing boards to government programs to land-use issues (both from the point of view of native Canadians and settlers alike). Thankfully, he includes a good section of resources and groups for interested parties to get involved with or this would have been an incredible depressing volume.… (mehr)