A2: Book Review

The Los Angeles Times reviews “Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All,” a new book by Oran B. Hesterman, founder of the Ann Arbor nonprofit Fair Food Network. From the review: ”Hesterman’s work follows a library’s worth of books and movies that have questioned the wisdom of enormous corn and soybean farms, the morals of food advertising, the dangers of fast food diets, the health of confined animal feeding operations and more. But while Hesterman argues that the status quo is not working, he hopes to inspire readers to do more than plant tomatoes in their yards. He wants a food system that values “equity, diversity, ecological integrity and economic viability,” and much of the book is taken up with examples of people and institutions working toward a just food system.” [Source]