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The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply

5 reviews
Ken Midkiff

St. Martin's Press, 2004

Problems and solutions to agribusiness as a whole
As large meat factories and corporate processing operations take over America, so grows the need for a logical assessment of such methods, here provided by Ken Midkiff's The Meat You Eat. Midkiff is a Sierra Club Clean Water Campaign director and an expert on agribusiness and sustainable farming applications: The Meat You Eat takes a predictably hard look at the methods used by corporations to ...

Not a Drop to Drink: America's Water Crisis (and What You Can Do)

2 reviews
Ken Midkiff

New World Library, 2007

The subject deserves a better book than this
This is a thin, poorly edited book about a coming train wreck in water supply. I think it attempts to follow in the footsteps of the late Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert", a noble idea as that (far better) book was a history, and suggested no solutions. Midkoff, to his credit, does suggest some actions, and provides both a broader geographic scope (problems in the Southeast and Northeast) and ...