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The emphasis that Kingslover places on agribusiness in some of her sidelines, her small informative insights on farm subsidies, on the use of pesticides really lay out some complicated issues in simple terms with solid statistics (or at least I hope they are solid) that would get across to a reader, perhaps already predisposed for change, or knowledgeable about some of the broken aspects of our food system but lacking the bare bones clarity or possible day to day solutions. She is not a pessimist, not apocalyptic, she does show frustration but is altogether reasonable, sensible in her description of systemic problems based in the way we conduct agriculture and the was policy affects what we eat. She firmly makes the case for farmers and consumers and lays blame at the feet of those who do them ill. I wish that she would do it more often, but I imagine it would hurt the happy utopic narrative she is trying to create and sell, that is that these evils can be bypassed, changed, diminished or destroyed. I am rooting on her side, I want to see the city on the hill, but her Calvinist approach to environmentally sound living does not apply to most Americans, even if the common problems we face do. Most of us watch TV and buy lots and lots of things from very large companies, and we have neither the ability nor the perception to change this to a great extent.