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Title: Breath-taking perspective
Review: Fifty years ago our family farm in Alcester, SD, had row crops, an orchard, cows, chickens, horses, pastures, woods and a cycle of rotation that preserved the land without chemicals. Today it has only corn and soy. There are no animals, no orchard, no pasture. The land is farmed from fence row to fence row with the fields no longer bordered in trees. It has gone from a pastoral to an industrial farm with "inputs" of fertilizer and pesticides and "outputs" that are inputs for other industrial farming processes such as cattle feeding. We rent the farm house to a man who works in a nearby slaughter house. The barn stores cars he rebuilds. This book explains how these not uncommon changes came about and how the fundamental changes in the food chain leave us vulnerable to disease, crop failure and taxpayer subsidized food.
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