Terra Madre by Carlo Petrini 2009 Soft Cover Paperpack

Smudges on back cover but otherwise pages in excellent pre-owned condition. "More than twenty years ago, when Italian Carlo Petrini learned that McDonald’s wanted to erect its golden arches next to the Spanish Steps in Rome, he developed an impassioned response: he helped found the Slow Food movement. Since then, Slow Food has become a worldwide phenomenon. On a global scale, as Petrini tells us in Terra Madre, we aren’t eating food. Food is eating us. Large-scale industrial agriculture has run rampant and penetrated every corner of the world. People have been forced into standardized, unnatural diets, and aggressive, chemical-based agriculture is ravaging ecosystems from the Great Plains to the Kalahari. Food has been stripped of its meaning, reduced to a mere commodity, and its mass production is contributing to injustice all over the world.In Terra Madre, Petrini shows us a solution in the thousands of newly formed local alliances between food producers and food consumers. And he proposes expanding these alliances—connecting regional food communities around the world to promote good, clean, and fair food." Bundle more than one purchase from my Closet to save. New to Poshmark? Sign up with code ASPENNINEWOOD to save $15 off of your first purchase.