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The costs of industrial agriculture are astonishing in terms of damage to the environment, human health, animal suffering, and social equity, and the situation demands that we expand our ecological imagination to meet this crisis. In response to growing dissatisfaction with the existing food system, farmers and consumers are creating alternate models of production and consumption that are both sustainable and equitable. In Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture, author A. Whitney Sanford uses the story of the deity Balaram and the Yamuna River as a foundation for discussing the global food crisis and illustrating the Hindu origins of agrarian thought. By employing narrative as a means of assessing modern agriculture, Sanford encourages us to reconsider our relationship with the earth. Merely creating new stories is not enough -- she asserts that each story must lead to changed practices. Growing Stories from India demonstrates that conventional agribusiness is only one of many options and engages the work of modern agrarian luminaries to explore how alternative agricultural methods can be implemented.

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Olson's collection of Still's work is complete, but it is so much more that that -- it is a tribute to on eof Kentucky's finest writing minds, and in particular a showcase for how the 'Dean of Appalachian Literature' arrived at a level to which so many aspire. For those interested in Still's work or even in seeing the development of an excellent creative writer, The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still is a fantastic tribute to the progression of the creative-writing mind, as well as lasting tribute to one of Kentucky's own. -- <i>Becky L. Meadows, H-Net Review</i> -- </p>

<p> This important book will be an early benchmark for the study of food, culture, and religion. It will endure and be quoted in years to come. -- Christopher Key Chapple, author of Yoga and the Luminous: Patanjali's Spiritual Path to Freedom --

The central effort of Growing stories from India is to identify a more mutually beneficial human-earth relationship.... Her idea of a more natural way for agriculture will certainly appeal strongly to India's farmers, most of whom are keen to rediscover their organic roots. --The Hindu --

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A. Whitney Sanford, professor emerita of religion at the University of Florida, is the author of Singing Krishna: Sound Becomes Sight in Paramanand's Poetry, and Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, an Vandana Shiva is the director of Navdanya in India. A physicist, philosopher, and feminist, she is the author of more than twenty books and the recipient of more than twenty international awards.

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