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Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
Written by Gail Hudson, Gary McAvoy and Jane Goodall
Narrated by Tippi Hedren
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Renowned scientist and best-selling author Jane Goodall delivers an eye-opening and empowering book that explores the social and personal significance of what we eat. In Harvest for Hope, Jane Goodall presents an empowering and far-reaching vision for social and environmental transformation through the way we produce and consume the foods we eat. In clear, well-organized chapters that include "The Organic Boom" and "Thinking Globally, Eating Locally", readers will discover the dangers behind many of today's foods, along with the extraordinary individual and worldwide benefits of eating locally grown, organic produce. For anyone who has ever wanted to know how they can take a stand for a more sustainable world, Harvest for Hope reveals the healthy choices that will support the greater good.
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Reviews for Harvest for Hope
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An interesting discussion of GMOs, philosophy of food.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A thoughtful examination of the complex process whereby today's humans acquire the food and drink to sustain us, often to the significant detriment of our planet and other sentient beings. While a lot of the news is grim, Goodall manages to dispense her information with compassion and empowering practical suggestions. Expectedly, a significant portion of the text is dedicated to animal cruelty issues, especially in factory farming settings, however Goodall treats the carnivores in her readership with her customary respect and does not bludgeon steak lovers for their choice. Rather, she focuses on educating every food consumer to keep in mind that each meal is a vote for the type of planet we want to live on and changing one item on your plate (or the method used to grow it) can make a huge difference when multipled over time. I found the David vs. Goliath analogies a little overwrought at times (not ALL successful multinational corporations are bad, just as not ALL small, independent farms are good), but that was a minor annoyance in an otherwise powerful book. I appreciated the comprehensive approach she took to approaching the human nutrition chain as a whole: soil, water, seed, plant, protein & dairy, etc, as well as the populations who determine how those resources are foraged, cultivated, harvested and sold/traded. Monsanto executives probably won't find much to love in these pages and sensitive PETAites might not be able to stomach some of the barnyard atrocities, but I'd recommend it to just about everyone else.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Goodall outlines here many of the problems of our current food production systems. Big businesses have taken over a huge fraction of the work and in their quest for profit they neglect both risks to the consumers of their food products and also the general damage to the environment. Many specific problems are dealt with here in some detail, such as cattle and hog feed lots and salmon farming. Goodall's advice for dealing with these problems is mostly just to shop more sensitively and intelligently - to buy organic free range eggs etc. Growing your own food is also mentioned.This book is not very reflective - it doesn't really discuss the challenges involved in figuring out how to be a better consumer or a better citizen. The book provides basic lists of do-s and don't-s. Goodall does also give some names of organization and other resources to allow the reader to extend those lists a bit. I fear that this general territory is very turbulent and these basic lists are not very reliable or durable. I am sure that Goodall has done good research. But the ground is constantly shifting. On the one hand, the global ecology is chaotic and goes through great swings, e.g. which fish are scarce and which abundant can flip around in surprising ways. Then technology, too - food production systems - is also changing rapidly. On top of all that, there are powerful forces of distortion and disinformation. What sorts of conditions are legally allowed behind a label of "free range"?No doubt, our individual consumer choices are key drivers in the global economy. But these choices are powerfully constrained by the greater cultures we live in. Look at the power of mass media. As long as folks subject themselves to such a barrage of highly tuned advertising, both explicit and that underlying almost all the idealized portrayals of how people live in our culture... one of the most powerful things a person can do is to turn off their TV - and then invite over a neighbor for conversation. Yes, it is good for a family to eat together and enjoy conversation, but essential too for that conversation to extend and circulate. These are tough times. In an emergency, there is often no time for reflection. Sometimes a simple formula is what is needed for a large group of people to act in a coordinated way. Maybe we can turn our present crisis around by buying organic food. But look e.g. at the problems in finance. It sure seems like banking and investment practices are also serious underlying causes of the crisis in farming. Maybe if we made different choices there, e.g. moving savings to Credit Unions or other locally owned banks, maybe that could help keep small farmers afloat.If you don't know about the problems with industrial agriculture, this is as good a place to learn about them as any. It has practical information for making wiser food purchasing choices. But this book just covers one facet of a nasty web of problems that is all tangled up and requires a multifaceted method for a real shift to occur.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing book -- another one that changed the way I look at food, eating, and nutrition. Makes me want to become a vegetarian.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Examining the implications of your decisions regarding food consumption, Goodall makes a passionate argument for making good choices about what you choose to eat. Exploring topics such as genetically modified foods, factory farms, obesity, and water consumption, she helped me understand why it's important to buy organic products and free-range meat. Although we'd already moved toward a more healthy diet, she changed our approach by noting that each purchase you make sends a message. I particularly liked her suggestion that paying more for organic foods is like making a charitable donation to an organization you believe is doing good work.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good information and quite eye opening without relying on gore and shock to make a point. It is common knowledge that a vegan lifestyle would benefit humanity as much as the animals we eat. This book makes its points towards this without being preachy and pushy.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's quite depressing hearing how food is produced, at the cost of environment degradation, animal suffering and our health. It convinced me to look harder for food from local farmers who hopefully grow in a more nature-friendly way. It costs both more money and more time but I think it's worth it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A wide-ranging intro to food-related sustainability topics, which is good if you're utterly unfamiliar with most of them. Beyond that, it lacks any nuance and depth. A disappointment compared to the excellence of Goodall's books on chimp behavior.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I fully expected to encounter a preachy Goodall telling me that I was a murderer, carcass-eater, and all the other niceties that vegetarians seem to call people who eat meat. But Goodall is smarter than the average vegetarian. She understands that people are different and that being preachy and judgmental isn't the way to save the world.Instead, Goodall lays out the facts, bit by bit, and leaves it up to you to decide what to do. The facts are many and they are scary. I found myself unconsciously eating less meat while reading this book. She starts off the book with a celebration of food. Why we love it, why we need it and how the different cultures celebrate with it.Then we get into some dire facts. I honestly had no idea of the extent of the plight of the farmer, no idea about genetically modified foods or how cows, chickens, pigs, etc are "harvested" for their meat. I already knew about the obesity issue in Americans, everyone knows this. But with some helpful suggestions from Goodall, it seems like something that is fixable. She has a chapter on becoming a vegetarian but she repeatedly states throughout the book to just eat LESS meat. The amount of energy, grain and water that is needed to support the meat industry is staggering and if everyone just ate less, it would make a huge difference.Obviously becoming vegetarian would be helpful, but she says that even becoming semi-vegetarian is helpful. Eating meat only occasionally and eating meat that is organic and free-range shows your support to the farmers who are trying to make a living and make a difference in the world. Going to farmer's markets, buying local produces, buying organic, forgoing bottled water (apparently tests have shown that bottled water has some pretty nasty toxins in it simply because this area isn't regulated like regular tap (public) water is) and growing your own food are just a few ways to help keep the world healthy for the future generations.The United Nations released a study showing that if we don't stop the degradation of the land, pollution, and overfishing of the seas, we would literally run out of food for the world's population by 2050.Just reading the book is enough to spur people into action, to take the small steps necessary to protect the earth's food supply for many many more generations. This is a really motivating book.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Oh dear. This book was in a list of similarly-themed books that I found in the New York Times Magazine (I think). I'm afraid it's a stellar example of expert-gone-wrong, sort of like the Linus Pauling Vitamin C thing. Jane Goodall knows a lot about chimpanzees, and she obviously cares about our food choices and their impact on the planet. But the book is a total hodgepodge of everything from reminiscences about eating canned pineapple in the air raid shelter during the Blitz to an incredibly naive chapter telling us that my goodness! people in different countries eat different kinds of food! My resolute omnivorousness probably made me less sympathetic to her championing of a vegetarian diet, as well. Spend your time reading her books on chimpanzees if you want to read Jane Goodall.