Eating with Conscience: Bioethics for Consumers

A call to anarchy, this slim book includes all of the incitement anyone could possibly need to join the organic/vegetarian revolution. The modern agro-industrial food system is poisoning us and the earth, torturing animals and starving people. It is a heavily subsidized, often monopolistic and is being run for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many. Fox calls out to all of us to pay attention to what's on our plates, look hard at where it is coming from, and mend our ways. He includes a short list of easily followed guidelines for purchasing food, and ten commandments for farmers and food merchants. This one will leave you wondering if Ronald McDonald seems amusing to the 50% of Guatemalan children who are starving to death while that country ships millions of pounds of hamburger to the U.S. each year. It will make you question who's paying off whom to keep the USDA behind dietary suggestions that are unscientific and unhealthy. It will strengthen your resolve to buy locally produced, organic food and thank the farmers who are gentle to our earth.

Dr. Fox has written a concise, readable, and utterly non-extremist review of Agribusiness. I thought that when I opened this book, I might be faced with ranting and horrid pictures. Not the case. This book explores the political arena, the ethical arena, the consumer arena of our food chain. At the end of this chain rest the animals---pumped with drugs and hormones, living unhealthy lives and passing that dis-ease in their bodies onto us. We call it steak and breast meat. It is, in a sense, poison---really---and Fox shows us why and how. Beautifully done!