Ellen Desjardins

In Review: Some Like it Raw

6 April, 2010 | Ellen Desjardins

The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights, David E. Gumpert, White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green, 2009, 288 pages.

The Raw Milk Revolution, by David E. Gumpert, would more accurately be entitled “Milk Wars.” Any attempt to sell raw milk creates a froth of such proportions that we must conclude that it is symptomatic of something bigger.

The war is all about politics and ideology – about food control and food beliefs. ...

Published in: New Eco Books 36.3

Interview: The Deep Optimist

6 April, 2010 | Ellen Desjardins

Vandana Shiva’s speaking tour hit Waterloo last fall. To audiences across the continent, she exposed the strengthening grip of corporate control on global food systems, and the complicity of Western governments in allowing it to happen. Shiva promotes a re-imagination of the dominant economic, political and socio-cultural systems, into holistic ones that serve people and the planet first – a full-scale transformation she calls “Earth Democracy.”

Published in: New Eco Books 36.3
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