Food for the Future: Stories from the Alternative Agrofood Movement is about different foods, the stories they contain, and most of all the people in the stories. John Brueggemann interviewed dozens of farmers, chefs, nonprofit managers, consumers, teachers, and healthcare providers. He argues that their individual stories point towards larger patterns that have shaped the alternative agrofood movement, and that other factors, including the environmental movement, farms, lifestyle movements, and consumers have all played a crucial role in its rise. The author concludes that the alternative agrofood movement is providing a countervailing force relative to mainstream market culture, and that instead of efficiency, profit, consumption, individualism and shortterm thinking, the alternative agrofood movement emphasizes meaning, need, creation, community, and longterm thinking.
Food for the Future: Stories from the Alternative Agrofood Movement is about different foods, the stories they contain, and most of all the people in the stories. John Brueggemann interviewed dozens of farmers, chefs, nonprofit managers, consumers, teachers, and healthcare providers. He argues that their individual stories point towards larger patterns that have shaped the alternative agrofood movement, and that other factors, including the environmental movement, farms, lifestyle movements, and consumers have all played a crucial role in its rise. The author concludes that the alternative agrofood movement is providing a countervailing force relative to mainstream market culture, and that instead of efficiency, profit, consumption, individualism and shortterm thinking, the alternative agrofood movement emphasizes meaning, need, creation, community, and longterm thinking.
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