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A host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and animals. But advice on what to do about it largely begins and ends with the admonition to eat local or eat organic. Fair Food is an enlightening and inspiring guide to changing not only what we eat, but how food is grown, packaged, delivered, marketed, and sold. Oran B. Hesterman shows how our systems dysfunctions are unintended consequences of our emphasis on efficiency, centralization, higher yields, profit, and convenienceand defines the new principles, as well as the concrete steps, necessary to restructuring it. Along the way, he introduces people and organizations across the country who are already doing this work in a number of creative ways, from bringing fresh food to inner cities to fighting for farm workers rights to putting cows back on the pastures where they belong. He provides a wealth of practical information for readers who want to get more involved.

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<p> Publishers Weekly , April 18, 2011<br> Intended as a practical guide for community food activists who want to take the locavore movement across race, class, and city lines, this book illuminate ways in which consumers can become engaged citizens. Especially important (and rare) is Hesterman's willingness to work constructively with corporate giants like Costco and the Kellogg Foundation....The dedication to social justice is clear, genuine, and logically argued as a food issue. A helpful and hefty final chapter of Resources provides readers with a comprehensive national listing of organizations to join, support, or replicate.

<p> Publishers Weekly, April 18, 2011<br> Intended as a practical guide for community food activists who want to take the locavore movement across race, class, and city lines, this book illuminate ways in which consumers can become engaged citizens. Especially important (and rare) is Hesterman's willingness to work constructively with corporate giants like Costco and the Kellogg Foundation....The dedication to social justice is clear, genuine, and logically argued as a food issue. A helpful and hefty final chapter of Resources provides readers with a comprehensive national listing of organizations to join, support, or replicate. <p> Civil Eats, June 1, 2011 Unless you travel in food policy or agronomy circles, you probably haven't heard of Oran Hesterman. It's time you had. Hesterman, who runs the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based nonprofit Fair Food Network, has written a book that just might wake you up and get you to care about what's going on with the food you eat and how it gets t

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Dr. Oran B. Hesterman is the president and CEO of Fair Food Network. For fifteen years he led the Integrated Farming Systems and Food and Society Programs for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, during which time he seeded the local food systems movement with over $200 million. A native of Berkeley, California, and a former professor of agronomy at Michigan State University in East Lansing, he currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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