Food for the Future: Stories from the Alternative Agro-food Movement is about different foods, the stories they contain, and most of all the people in the stories. John Brueggemann interviewed dozens of farmers, chefs, non-profit managers, consumers, teachers, and healthcare providers. He argues that their individual stories point towards larger patterns that have shaped the alternative agro-food movement, and that other factors, including the environmental movement, farms, lifestyle movements, and consumers have all played a crucial role in its rise. The author concludes that the alternative agro-food movement is providing a countervailing force relative to mainstream market culture, and that instead of efficiency, profit, consumption, individualism and short-term thinking, the alternative agro-food movement emphasizes meaning, need, creation, community, and long-term thinking.
- ISBN10 1666930717
- ISBN13 9781666930719
- Publish Date 15 July 2023 (first published 3 July 2023)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 322
- Language English