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Eat Here Brian Halweil (Worldwatch Institute)

Eat Here By Brian Halweil (Worldwatch Institute)

Summary

Eating locally is a growing movement that is good for your health-but even better for the planet.

Eat Here Summary

Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket by Brian Halweil (Worldwatch Institute)

Everyone everywhere depends increasingly on long-distance food. Since 1961 the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold. In the United States, food typically travels between 1,500 and 2,500 miles from farm to plate-as much as 25 percent farther than in 1980. For some, the long-distance food system offers unparalleled choice. But it often runs roughshod over local cuisines, varieties, and agriculture, while consuming staggering amounts of fuel, generating greenhouse gases, eroding the pleasures of face-to-face interactions, and compromising food security. Fortunately, the long-distance food habit is beginning to weaken under the influence of a young, but surging, local-foods movement. From peanut-butter makers in Zimbabwe to pork producers in Germany and rooftop gardeners in Vancouver, entrepreneurial farmers, start-up food businesses, restaurants, supermarkets, and concerned consumers are propelling a revolution that can help restore rural areas, enrich poor nations, and return fresh, delicious, and wholesome food to cities.

Eat Here Reviews

An insightful and timely book indicating just how important food, farms and rural cultures are. -- Jules Pretty, author of Agri-Culture: Reconnecting People, Land, and Nature
Now it is up to the rest of us to do something with this amazing gift of a book. -- Mark Ritchie, President of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis

About Brian Halweil (Worldwatch Institute)

Brian Halweil is a researcher at the Worldwatch Institute.

Additional information

GOR007165781
9780393326642
0393326640
Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket by Brian Halweil (Worldwatch Institute)
Used - Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
20041115
256
N/A
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