Download The Grand Food Bargain and the Mindless Drive for More Kevin D Walker Books

Product details Hardcover 344 pages Publisher Island Press (March 26, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1610919475

The Grand Food Bargain and the Mindless Drive for More Kevin D Walker Books Reviews

• Walker’s storytelling ability is riveting, his expertise coupled with decades of involvement with varied aspects of the food industry make his well documented book completely legitimate. As you read along he will take you on a fascinating food journey. He shares a captivating story as he followed a hunter gatherer in Africa, then you’ll vicariously visit a banana plantation in Costa Rica, you’ll also experience what is happening in the fields of North America’s crops and read how meat is produced. You’ll learn firsthand what conditions exist that exude higher yield. The insights into quantity versus quality of food has compromised our health and impacted the earth. Most likely your eyes will open wider as you walk with him in a modern American Supermarket. You’ll ponder at how little nutritional value actually exists in what we call food.
  Walker’s expertise and well documented book left me knowing that I have an individual choice in my consumption and a moral duty to help bring about positive change in the world of nutrition to all those in my sphere of influence.
• When I was a boy I grew up on a farm that was not really big by today's standards, but to me, it was my whole world. When my grandpa passed away, the farm was chopped up and sold at auction. At the time I was in my early twenties, with a checkbook that didn’t hold much buying power, as I would soon find out. I watched and witnessed my dreams of raising a family in the old family farm house on the hill not just fade away, but get ripped out of me with each "SOLD!" by the auctioneer.
  
  Fast forward to marriage, two children, and finding out that the youngest is allergic to the foods we eat. Young families don’t always eat "the best foods," they eat what they can afford. When child number three also had food allergies, my wife and I realized that we shouldn’t buy the foods we could afford, yet we couldn’t afford the kinds of foods our family needed. We had to figure out another way to raise our children and grow the food they needed. When our fifth and final child showed food allergies, we were ready and determined to move into self-sustaining farming. We scratched and clawed to get the money and purchased a small farm.
  
  Our story is not unique, nor are the struggles we share with our health. I feel blessed that my family has been able to find a way to live on a small farm that not only helps us but now helps many other families as well. We must confront the problems we have with our food supply. I want to thank the author, Kevin Walker, for using his education, his professional experiences, his memories from youth, and most of all for following his heart to shed light on not only what we face but how it came to be. It’s not easy to know what path to take moving forward, until we know how we got here in the first place.
  
  The picture is my oldest son who just turned fifteen. What impresses me most, is how in-tune he is to the problems with food, as well as others. Here he is reading The Grand Food Bargain. My son quoted from the book one day when the author talked about farmers in the past who said that farming takes $2 million to make $1 million. My son sees the financial effort and time it has taken to get us where we are at today. His question to me was "Dad are you trying to get us (his siblings) the $2 million?" I responded with a smile and said "yes so to speak, I may never see the fruits of this place like you will." He helps me remember how precious and capable our youth are and can be.
  
  The elephant is definitely in the room. And Kevin Walker has called it out front and center. He and the cause have our support. May we be ever vigilant in our efforts to educate ourselves, our families and friends to get out of this self-inflicted food mess. If there was ever a book to express the past and needs for future food, this is it. The author gave me clarity and resolve for what my family is doing. I thought I was just doing this small farm "thing" for my family. I did not realize the broader impact we are having.
• The stories in this book caught my attention when I first picked it up and thumbed through it!! I was fascinated and surprised to learn the many aspects of food in the way we live.
  
  Whoever thought more food could be a curse to society? Whoever knew that we, consumers, handed over our role as driving the food system simply because we wanted more food? Whoever thought that instead of leaving our grandchildren with more food, we were leaving them with unwanted consequences.
  
  This book left me with a lot to think about. Easy read, great stories! Just ordered 4 books to share!
• Great book that applies some real life stories to the evolution of how food is derived, delivered, and consumed. Enjoyed.
• So glad I read this book.
  At first (initial assumption), this book was about trends in the nutrition industry, foods best to consume, health exploration concerning food, or other information along those lines.
  
  It is unlike any thing I’ve read or studied regarding food.
  Instead it explores the journey of us, and food. Where it started, where we are now, as it relates to our continuing relationship with food. (Yes we do have a relationship with food!)
  
  I learned many historical facts traveling through this journey. The role of food, what we want, expect, and the price we are paying through industry, government and natural resources for our food.
  
  As someone very interested in nutrition, I found myself thinking about a completely different side of the food equation and it’s role in my life.
  
  Information is based upon years of personal experience, stories and professional work both here in the states and internationally.
  
  Referenced well, especially when drawing upon historical facts.