Describes the dysfunctions in the current food system, from chemical runoff to inhumane treatment of animals, and presents new principles and concrete steps to restructure how food is grown, packaged, delivered, marketed, and sold

Power, food, and agriculture: implications for farmers, consumers, and communities / Mary K. Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, and Douglas H. Constance -- Chickenizing American farmers, or "Sometimes I feel like a galley slave" / Donald D. Stull -- Industrial chicken meat and the good life in...

Beginnings -- Crop Regions -- Market Revolutions -- Civil War and Reconstructions -- Home on the Range? -- Two World Wars and the Great Depression -- Get Big or Get Out -- The Future: What Kind of Agriculture Do You Want?

Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia, "Where Communism goes, hunger follows" was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by...

The world food problem -- Mexico's way out -- A continent of peasants -- We shall release the waters -- A very big, very poor country -- Parable of seeds -- You can't eat steel -- The meaning of famine -- The conquest of hunger -- Present at the recreation