This provocative collection of essays, edited by plant and soil scientist Fred Magdoff, sociology professor John Bellamy Foster and rural sociologist Fredrick Buttell, is highly critical of corporate agribusiness. Hungry For Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment describes how millions of peasants and farmers are being pushed off their land by pollution from chemical pesticides and genetically engineered seeds that threaten plant diversity. These politics and how they have led to hunger and poverty for farmers in the past are discussed in this brave and informative plea to stop the insanity.
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