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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver
Overall I found this book to be a great combination of advice, insight, wit, commentary and informational resources. It has definitely inspired me to be more conscious of my food sources, and I will be changing my diet/shopping accordingly.
It's important to remember that this is not a "how-to" book on becoming a locavore. This is a record of one family's attempt to do so with a smattering of resources for beginning to make your own well-informed changes. For most people who will read this book, it's just not feasible to move to a farm and grow their own food. Also, it isn't until the end of the book that she very clearly states that her family's changes were focused on local vegetables and meat, which is why she didn't address grains and dairy very often.
As a life-long vegetarian, I found her chapter on vegetarianism interesting and thought-provoking. It didn't make me want to go back to eating meat (even humanely treated, grass-finished meat), but it did offer a nice middle step between the extremes of just eating any old meat that's available and not eating any meat at all.
It's important to remember that this is not a "how-to" book on becoming a locavore. This is a record of one family's attempt to do so with a smattering of resources for beginning to make your own well-informed changes. For most people who will read this book, it's just not feasible to move to a farm and grow their own food. Also, it isn't until the end of the book that she very clearly states that her family's changes were focused on local vegetables and meat, which is why she didn't address grains and dairy very often.
As a life-long vegetarian, I found her chapter on vegetarianism interesting and thought-provoking. It didn't make me want to go back to eating meat (even humanely treated, grass-finished meat), but it did offer a nice middle step between the extremes of just eating any old meat that's available and not eating any meat at all.