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The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved
Inside America’s Underground Food Movements
http://www.chelseagreen.com/2006/items/revolution
Sandor Ellix Katz

"This revolution will not be genetically engineered, pumped up with
hormones, covered in pesticides, individually wrapped, or microwaved....
This revolution is wholesome, nurturing, and sensual. This revolution
reinvigorates local economies. This revolution rescues traditional foods
that are in danger of extinction and revives skills that will enable people
to survive the inevitable collapse of the unsustainable, globalized,
industrial food system."

—The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved
An instant classic for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists.

Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is
diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after
being shipped thousands of miles and passing through inscrutable supply
chains, and controlled by multinational corporations. In our system of
globalized food commodities, convenience replaces quality and a connection
to the source of our food. Most of us know almost nothing about how our
food is grown or produced, where it comes from, and what health value it
really has. It is food as pure corporate commodity. We all deserve much
better than that.

In The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, author Sandor Ellix Katz (Wild
Fermentation, Chelsea Green 2003) profiles grassroots activists who are
taking on Big Food, creating meaningful alternatives, and challenging the
way many Americans think about food. From community-supported local
farmers, community gardeners, and seed saving activists, to underground
distribution networks of contraband foods and food resources rescued from
the waste stream, this book shows how ordinary people can resist the
dominant system, revive community-based food production, and take direct
responsibility for their own health and nutrition.

Chapter Topics Include:

    * Local and Seasonal Food versus Constant Convenience Consumerism
    * Seed Saving as a Political Act
    * Holding Our Ground: Land and Labor Struggles
    * Slow Food for Cultural Survival
    * The Raw Underground
    * Beware the Nutraceutical: Food and Healing
    * Plant Prohibitions: Laws Against Nature
    * Vegetarian Ethics and Humane Meat
    * Feral Foragers: Scavenging and Recycling Food Resources
    * Water: The Source of All Life