Watershed Media imprint: 4 books
The CAFO Reader
The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
The CAFO Reader is possibly the most powerful indictment of factory farming ever compiled, with essays from 30 of the world's leading experts. It also offers a vision for a food system that leaves behind the horrific 20th century model of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations.The CAFO Reader brings...
Food Fight
The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Our Chance to Right the Food System:Every five to seven years, Congress passes a little understood legislation called the Farm Bill. To a large extent, the Farm Bill writes the rules and sets the playing field for America’s contemporary food system, determining what we eat, how much it costs, and where...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
The Energy Reader takes an unflinching look at the environmental devastation created by our thirst for energy-including supposedly clean” renewable sources. From oil spills, nuclear accidents, and mountaintop-removal coal mining to oversized wind farms and desert-destroying solar power plants, virtually...
Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature
Essays on Conservation-based Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature addresses an urgent and complex issue facing communities and cultures throughout the world: the need for heightened land stewardship and conservation in an era of diminishing natural resources. Agricultural lands in rural areas are being purchased for development....