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  • From: "Robin Follette" <marketfarmers AT thymeforewe.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] read anything good lately?
  • Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:44:14 -0500

It is good.  I heard Frances speak last month.  Her powerful presence and enthusiasm are contagious.  She's the best speaker I've ever heard.
 
The book covers a lot.  She writes about closed businesses and government; letting a small group of people make important decisions for our country.  "It's a symptom of thin democracy, something done to us or for us, not by or with us.  Such democracy is always at risk of being stolen by private interests or extremist groups, left and right." 
 
She talks about our food supply even on such a small scale as school gardens.  I'm a school gardener.  I grow food with the kids at my daughter's school, so this particularly interested me.  She also writes about sweat shops, alternative energy, community farming and much more. 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] read anything good lately?

Robin,
    It sounds good - can you tell in a few sentences what the gyst of the book is?
 
                Jill Bussiere, Wisconsin
-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Robin Follette
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 8:22 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: [Market-farming] read anything good lately?

I'm reading Democracy's Edge by Frances Moore Lappe (Diet For A Small Planet).  Very interesting. 


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