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What Your Food Ate

How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim our Health

by David R. Montgomery
Anne Biklé
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Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us. The long-running partnerships through which crops and soil life nourish one another suffuse plant and animal foods in the human diet with an array of compounds and nutrients our bodies need to protect us from pathogens and chronic ailments. Unfortunately, conventional agricultural practices unravel these vital partnerships and thereby undercut our well-being. Can farmers and ranchers produce enough nutrient-dense food to feed us all? Can we have quality and quantity? With their trademark thoroughness and knack for integrating information across numerous scientific fields, Montgomery and Bikle chart the way forward. Navigating discoveries and epiphanies about the world beneath our feet, they reveal why regenerative farming practices hold the key to healing sick soil and untapped potential for improving human health.

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    June 21, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781696608565
      • File size: 457635 KB
      • Duration: 15:53:24

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    • English

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Laural Merlington narrates with intelligence, clarity, good pace, and timing that suits this scientific send-up of how farming practices have devolved. Her serious yet approachable tone and sure cadence work for this detailed and demanding manifesto on regenerative farming. Merlington does especially good work on the profiles and interviews that underpin the husband-and-wife team's thorough research, which upends the way that industrial farming--aiming for quantity over quality--has depleted soils. This argument for no-till agriculture, regenerative grazing practices, and eliminating the impact of synthetic fertilizers on the land provides the listener with a detailed blueprint of how the health of the soil affects human health. The authors argue persuasively that we need to adopt the policies of the future now. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

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