The Killing of the CountrysideThis book is a devastating attack on modern British agricultural policy and practice and a plea for a return to natural cycles, an end to subsidies and the domination of agribusiness, and for a safe, sustainable farming system. |
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Contents
The Grim Reapers | 1 |
The Desert in our Midst | 19 |
The New Inheritors | 35 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Killing of the Countryside |
| Author | Graham Harvey |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape, 1997 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0224044443, 9780224044448 |
| Length | 218 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General |
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