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Everyone who eats food or has kids should read this book. Does that cover you?
Recommended this book again today(5/6/11), for the umpteenth time. Why?
This story and the way it is told and the way the story continues after the book is done should make it compelling reading for any environmental or community activist -indeed maybe should be required reading for anyone seeking justice, writing about those seeking it, or exploring the rights of the invididual vs the rights of coporations in today's economic and political landscape in North America.
It's easy to think of political or environmental progress in terms of a +positive+ journalistic arc of Injustice or Curiosity->Investigation->Discovery->Coming to Justice.
Great journalism and community driven change are often built out of such investigation and reporting. Somtimes justice prevails and journalistic awards are given out. Sometimes the good guys and their supporters drink champagne.
Then, the lights dim, and the readers are left with the warm glow of a happy ending while the protagonists (now off-stage) get cold shouldered in small towns, win office only to get voted out the next term, lose their jobs, their savings, their farms, die of cancer, etc., etc., etc. . . .
Cruel Surprise: nonfiction doesn't always have a happy ending (See, [b:Seized! A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Pirates and Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters|8529551|Seized! A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Pirates and Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters|Max Hardberger|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qXWeKr-DL._SL75_.jpg|7927037] if you need another example.
Recommended this book again today(5/6/11), for the umpteenth time. Why?
This story and the way it is told and the way the story continues after the book is done should make it compelling reading for any environmental or community activist -indeed maybe should be required reading for anyone seeking justice, writing about those seeking it, or exploring the rights of the invididual vs the rights of coporations in today's economic and political landscape in North America.
It's easy to think of political or environmental progress in terms of a +positive+ journalistic arc of Injustice or Curiosity->Investigation->Discovery->Coming to Justice.
Great journalism and community driven change are often built out of such investigation and reporting. Somtimes justice prevails and journalistic awards are given out. Sometimes the good guys and their supporters drink champagne.
Then, the lights dim, and the readers are left with the warm glow of a happy ending while the protagonists (now off-stage) get cold shouldered in small towns, win office only to get voted out the next term, lose their jobs, their savings, their farms, die of cancer, etc., etc., etc. . . .
Cruel Surprise: nonfiction doesn't always have a happy ending (See, [b:Seized! A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Pirates and Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters|8529551|Seized! A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Pirates and Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters|Max Hardberger|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qXWeKr-DL._SL75_.jpg|7927037] if you need another example.