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The World is Not for Sale: Farmers Against Junk Food

The World is Not for Sale: Farmers Against Junk Food

by Anna De Casparis (Author)

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    Hardcover 2001

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

This is the story of Jose Bove, the radical French farmer who led a protest into the town of Millau and dismantled, to cheering crowds, the new McDonalds. Now a national hero in France, he has become a leading figure in the global anti-capitalist protests, famed not only for his passion for politics but also for his Roquefort cheese. For Bove the struggle against multinational and corporate industry, which he has been involved in since 1968, is also a struggle against what he calls "malbuffe", "horrible nosh". In France good food and good politics have proved an irresistible mixture. Bove examines the issues behind the campaign that was successfully launched to enthusiastic suport at the WTO protests in Seattle last November: the industrialization of agriculture in a global economy, the environmental damage this is wreaking and the tasteless unhealthy food that results.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 240
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 04 May 2001
ISBN 10: 1859846149
ISBN 13: 9781859846148

Media Reviews
. .. a call to action, and a timely reminder of the principle: 'Think globally, act locally.' -- Food Magazine

. .. an engaging account of two twentieth-century heroes who, in their fight for sustainable agriculture, have embraced the larger vision for a more just, healthy, and harmonic global community. -- clamour magazine

A vivid testament to the extraordinary potential when local communities, heroic direct actionists and employees come together I creative alliances against corporate power. -- New Statesman

Critics frequently accuse the opponents of economic globalization of not presenting any alternative ... The World is Not For Sale couldn't prove them more wrong. -- Red Pepper

In tune with the movement for which it will become a core text. -- Independent

It is refreshing to read informed argument by people who are both left wing and who, as working farmers, know what they are talking about. -- Socialist Review

Naomi Klein's No Logo , Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, The Silent Takeover By Noreena Hertz and now Bove's book are the bibles of the anti-capitalist movement. -- Guardian

The peasant leader regarded as a hero in the battle to save France from fast food and free trade is bringing his revolt across the Channel to protest against the 'perversion' of British agricultural policy. -- Sunday Times

Today MacDonald's, tomorrow the world. -- Times
Author Bio
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at the Nation Institute and author of The Shock Doctrine.