Good food and better farming

Issue 205 • March/April 2001

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Welcome

Welcome

Food

THE REAL COSTS OF MODERN FARMING

Chemical agriculture costs the Earth.

A DECENT DIET

Big corporations have debased food into commodities and balance-sheets.

STOLEN HARVEST

In Indian culture seeds are sacred. Multinational corporations are stealing seeds from the poor.

FRUITS OF THE EARTH

Plant-based diets hold the key to human health and the health of the planet.

ORGANIC BANDWAGON

As organic food is hijacked by corporate power, being "organic" is not enough.

CHOICE FOR CHILDREN

Let all schools teach children how to cook and enjoy good food.

Philosophy

LIBERATION ECOLOGY

There is a growing movement which celebrates the local, the small, the wild and the free.

Economics

ECO-VILLAGES

Hope, hard work and adaptability are the greatest assets.

TYRANNY OF NUMBERS

We need calculator-free zones.

MANAGING MONEY

A young man, aged eight, finds out about financial systems.

Memoirs

MEETING THE MAHATMA

Story of self realisation.

The Arts

IMAGES FOR THE SOUL

Robin Baring is an artist of mystical vision.

DRAMA OF NATURE

The paintings of Alan Bray reveal the drama of struggles between stone and water, trees and granite.

GARDEN OF LOVE

James Ursell built a giant wicker bowl of coppiced branches.

Frontline

COMMUNITY HARVEST

HOLISTIC HEALTH

STANDING THEIR GROUND

Regulars

Up the Elephant and Round the Castle

Letter from America

Poetry &

Letter from Key West

A Sense of Place &

Recipes

Reviews

TRUE BARGAINS

Review of Bringing the Food Economy Home

A CELTIC BARD

Review of Lindsay Clarke's Traditional Celtic Stories

SCIENCE AS SUPERSTITION

Review of Life is a Miracle

NOMADIC SOUL

Review of Wandering God

Welcome BACK, MR. KEYNES

Review of Localization: a Global Manifesto

PROPOSALS FOR CHANGE

Review of You Can't Eat GNP

PEASANTS OF FRANCE

Review of The World is Not for Sale

NOTION OF NOTHING

Review of The Nothing That Is

A CRITIQUE OF COMPUTERS

Review of High Tech Heretic and Let Them Eat Data

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