Description: Today's food activists think that "sustainable farming" and "eating local" are the way to solve a host of perceived problems with our modern food supply system. But after a thorough review of the evidence, DesRochers and Shimizu have concluded that these claims are mistaken.
Review Quotes:
from the Foreword by Blake Hurst, president, Missouri Farm Bureau
"In large parts of the world, local trumps science, and people suffer as a result.... Desrochers and Shimizu take the idea of local food to the back of the barn and beat the holy livin' tar out of it. In a more rational world, their defense of what is so clearly true would not be needed. However, our world is not rational, and most of what passes for thinking about food is as full of air as an elegant French pastry."
"Desrochers and Shimizu demonstrate that the debate over food miles is a distraction from the real issues that confront global food production." MasterResource.org
"Desrochers ... is the scholar's scholar. In an age where few read all important material on all sides of their subject, this professor stands out." Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, sspp.proquest.com
"Desrochers ... delivers a serious warning to the fetishization of local agriculture as the magic bullet that will solve our food problems."Bookloons"There is plenty of food for thought in this unconventional, provocative look at how we should go about feeding the masses. The authors...make some very interesting points and raise concerns that must be addressed." NATURE Magazine