So shall we reap : what's gone wrong with the world's food - and how to fix it

A work that focuses on the relentless drive for maximum food production at rock-bottom cost. As health scares spiral, rural workers are driven off the land and poor nations are forced to export their goods in a cut-throat marketplace. Colin Trudge proposes an alternative, looking at the global food industry and showing how - without resorting to GM crops - corporate barons can be stripped of control, the world can be fed and humanity can survive. Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- [pt.] 1. The nature of the problem and the meaning of agriculture -- 1. The nature of the problem -- 2. Farming : what it is, what it's for, how it became and how it works -- [pt.] 2. Food : the future belongs to the gourmet -- 3. Good farming, good eating and great gastronomy : a lightening tour of modern nutritional theory and the wondrous serendipity -- 4. Meat : how did we get it so wrong -- 5. Food unsafe -- [pt.] 3. Science, money and world power -- 6. Craft, science, and the growing of crops -- 7. Better crops, better livestock : the craft and science of breeding and genetic engineering -- 8. GMOs and the corruption of science -- 9. Of cash and values -- [pt.] 4. Enlightened agriculture -- 10. Alternatives off the shelf : vegetarians and organic farmers -- 11. Biology, morality, aesthetics : the meaning of enlightened agriculture -- 12. From where we are to where we want to be -- 13. Afterword -- Further reading -- Index. Journalist Colin Tudge has written a critique of current agricultural methods, combined with a manifesto for 'enlightened agriculture', which would place as its central concern the welfare of humans and other animals.