Eat Here

Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures In A Global Supermarket

by Brian Halweil

Eat Here

Paperback, 236 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, List Price: $16.95 | purchase

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An examination of food transportation practices throughout America and the rest of the world evaluates the economic and social costs of eating non-locally produced foods, citing such consequences as lost local revenues, transport pollution, and compromised food security while recommending rural restoration within cities. Original. 15,000 first printing.

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