| |  | The Ethics of what we eat - $32.95
By Peter Singer and Jim Mason. "Much of our food production depends on our not knowing much about it." This is our MUST read book. We have refined our list to this one book and encourage readers to explore PERMACULTURE after reading this book. The book addresses agribusiness's dirty secrets. The 1990s Mad Cow Disease exposed our lack of knowledge about the origins of the food we eat. Increasingly, we have begun to ask how our food is produced, by whom and under what conditions. Can ethical choices be convenient, carnivorous and cheap? Yes. Singer and Mason provide us with some disturbing answers about how our food production reduces nature and animals to vehicles for profit. It depicts a food system based on the rationally calculated torture of animals and plunder of precious natural resources. “Cheap” food is not cheap at all. Rather, intensive agriculture externalises its many costs to others: “the neighbours who can no longer enjoy being outside in their yard; the children who cannot safely swim in local streams; the farm workers who get ill from the pesticides they apply … [those] who will be made homeless by rising sea levels caused by global warming”. When you live in one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, wouldn’t it be more ethical to support poor farmers in underdeveloped nations by purchasing their produce imported under fair trade conditions? The authors are not, however, as preachy or fanatical as this may sound. They allow for some flexibility based on real-life contexts. “A little self-indulgence doesn’t make you a moral monster”.
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