FYI fellow Sustainable Agriculturists...looks like a good read...
Patrick Bosold

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From: "Todd Kimm" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:58 PM
Subject: Wolf is at the Door


> Iowa author and PFI member Robert Wolf will discuss and read from his new
> book tomorrow (Thursday, Sept. 4) at these locations:
>
> * Lawson's Books, E. 6th Street and Grand, Des Moines, noon-1pm
>
> * Big Table Books, 330 Main Street, Ames, 7-8pm
>
> Wolf's new book, "The Triumph of Technique: The Industrialization of
> Agriculture and the Destruction of Rural America," the result of
> two-and-a-half years of research and writing, has just been released by
> Ruskin Press.
>
> Fred Kirschenmann, Director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable
> Agriculture, writes: "'The Triumph of Technique' isn't an ordinary account
> of the industrialization of agriculture. It is a wake up call, a warning,
> and a call to action. And it isn't just about the structure of
> agriculture but about the potential collapse of civilization and about the
> need to 'restore human scale to human enterprise' and 'to emphasize
> cooperation over competition, virtue over efficiency and control.'"
>
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