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Some people may ask, "what's wrong with getting my food from some distant land, if the food is cheap and the system works?" The point Halweil, a senior researcher at the Worldwatch Institute, makes throughout this book is that those prices are artificially low, and the system is actually broken. Halweil's writing is journalistic in its reliance on interviews with farmers and activists, but the book's abundant statistics, graphs and suggestions for action lend it the tone of a policy paper--one that is, nonetheless, impassioned and accessible. Halweil gives readers reasons for pessimism (the thousan...Log In or Sign Up to Read More