Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
by Jane Goodall, Gary McAvoy, Gail Hudson
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Author: Gail Hudson, Gary McAvoy, Jane GoodallEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-14
ISBN: 0446698210
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: Eye Opening
Summary: 5 Stars
In this book I got much more than I thought possible. Besides being well written, poignant and having a thought provoking subject the book clearly demonstrates very real dangers in our current food culture around the world and ways to change them.
Although it happens in other books, Goodall stays away from the use of guilt or pulling heart strings to show the rampant abuse of animals that we consume for our diet. She also describes the effect of globalization from seed manufacturers and how easily the corporations can take advantage of poor people across the world. By promising unbelievable riches while hiding the ugly truth of environmental damage these mega-corporations increase their own profits and ignore the people that they have used.
The best part of this book to me was that it actually is filled with hope. Hope for the future that we all have a hand in when we realize that we are not the small, helpless people that government and corporations try to make us believe. When we take actions, even just small changes in our own life, huge changes can be made. She reminds us that as consumers we really do have all the power, we just need to use it. I personally have made several changes in my purchasing behavior since I read this book and I have already seen changes at my local supermarket, all by just asking for something better.
I recommend this book for anyone looking to understand more about what you 'nourish' your body and your children with. It is not a depressing book like many others in it's genre but more of a stepping off point for all of us to take charge and get the safe, healthy food supply that every human and animal deserves.
Summary of Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
The renowned scientist who fundamentally changed the way we view primates and our relationship with the animal kingdom now turns her attention to an incredibly important and deeply personal issue-taking a stand for a more sustainable world. In this provocative and encouraging book, Jane Goodall sounds a clarion call to Western society, urging us to take a hard look at the food we produce and consume-and showing us how easy it is to create positive change.Offering her hopeful, but stirring vision, Goodall argues convincingly that each individual can make a difference. She offers simple strategies each of us can employ to foster a sustainable society. Brilliant, empowering, and irrepressibly optimistic, HARVEST FOR HOPE is one of the most crucial works of our age. If we follow Goodall's sound advice, we just might save ourselves before it's too late.World-renowned scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall earned her fame by studying chimpanzee feeding habits. But in Harvest for Hope, she scrutinizes human eating behaviors, and the colossal food industries that force-feed some cultures' self-destructive habits for mass consumption. It's an unsustainable lifestyle that Goodall argues must change immediately, beginning--not ironically--at a grassroots level.
Looping personal anecdotes from 40 years of global travels with stories from noble farmer Davids and corporate Goliaths, Goodall methodically builds her case for shopping organic and living modestly. Mustering a tender gumption, she details the vicious cycle of pesticide-ridden and genetically engineered crops which feed the unknowing majority of consumers; and also feed the antibiotic-treated animals that provide these folks with inexpensive entrees. Leaving nasty slaughterhouse scenes to less tactful pens, Goodall focuses more on the product of "factory farming" techniques: mountains of waste, nutritionally depleted soil, polluted water, displaced organic farmers, and severely compromised food.
Hope springs from positive sources: Edible Schoolyard programs in the U.K. and U.S., parents breaking their schools' "unholy alliance" with fast food chains and soft drink companies, a steady rise in organic purchases. Goodall offers many suggestions for rallying others, exercising one's own consumer powers, and just plain eating less meat. Conservationists might say this information is nothing new, which might explain why Goodall provides only tertiary references to her many statistics and facts. But for those who prefer that their own eating habits be stirred--not shaken--into question, the kindly Chimpanzee Lady provides the gentle touch required. --Liane Thomas
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