Barry Estabrook

Very good book although it became pretty tiresome after yet another anecdote about worker mistreatment.It felt like 100! Was a bit uneven in spots. For instance, he seems to blithely ignore that, at least for some people, tomatoes not easy to grow at home (poor soil, pests, etc). Nor does he talk about the diversity in seed catalogs and why it persists. But I did enjoy the comprehensive history lesson about a vegetable (excuse me, I meant to say fruit) that I never before thought much about

Originally published in 2011.

You will learn a lot about where your pork comes from. This was easy reading. The author doesn't go around bashing farmers on how they are raising their pigs. He was truly on a quest to see if there were really better ways to raise pigs, and there were. He interviewed citizens way out in the country where hog farms had popped up out of nowhere and how it affected their everyday lives. You will be shocked to hear their stories. It's a very interesting read.

Just a couple of chapters in so far... and it is much more gripping than I'd expected.