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COPYRIGHT 2004 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization by Richard Manning North Point Press, 2004; $24.00
Don't get him wrong. Richard Manning, who lives on seventy acres of unspoiled land in western Montana, is not suggesting that mid-western farmers, not to mention the residents of New York City and Tokyo, abandon their homes and take to the woods, as he has. After all, his own grandfather was a successful farmer in northern Michigan.
What he wants to make clear, however, in this amiably grouchy and carefully crafted polemic, is just how much we...
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