Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future
The Case For an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods

A rare 5 from me on this. It's quite specialised, but if you are interested in the reality of where your food comes from and the best land management options, and if you aren't convinced by the dash for vat-fermented food, then this is for you. Brave, well-argued and not too long!......more

Just TERRIFIC. So many previous disparate thoughts spoken to, connected, and expanded in one place. A tight 150 pages that was very nourishing of both the mind and spirit. Definitely a book I’ll be buying for, and pushing into the arms of, my friends into the future.......more

I appreciate that this book won't be for everyone, because it's not an introduction, it's a polemical pamphlet response (in the best sense) for people already involved in the discussion. Should everyone actually be involved in the discussion of humanity's survival? Yup. And yet...if this book appeal......more

A timely and important polemic against Monbiot’s Regenisis tackling both physical limitations of PV panels and intellectual oversights. Smaje asks why, with an emphasis on the detrimental effects of the Global Standard Diet and Global Standard Farm, there is no concept of Global Standard Consumer an......more

6/5 This book sums up what it's taken me decades to learn, having personally taken the long way through ecomodernism to come out on the other side. It took me many years to learn what Smaje summarizes in this book. I went through the stage of believing the linear cultural paradigm of progress and dev......more