The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming

While Weis has lots of good statistics his presentation of modern farming, especially American Midwestern farming, leaves a lot to be desired. From the descriptions he cherry picks to the laws he chooses to ignore about animal feeding it is clear this book is incredibly biased. He is a fan of big words and even bigger sentences. Weis does a great job of illustrating how national agricultural corporations have come into power but he frames it so a reader who knows nothing of agriculture would think they are evil and out solely for profit, the producer and land be damned. His descriptions of modern animal farming leave a lot to be desired if you have ever been on a farm and he does little to mention that GMOs have had tons of research, mostly independent, that verify they are safe; nor does he talk about how Mark Lynas, the man behind the anti-GMO EU, has changed his position on them. Great read if you are setting out to hate the "agro-industrial grain-livestock complex" or already do, but it is too biased for me to want to recommend it to anyone.