Holy Cows And Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's Guide To Farm Friendly Food

by Joel Salatin
Holy Cows And Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's Guide To Farm Friendly Food  
published February 19th 2005 by Polyface
binding Paperback
isbn 0963810944   (isbn13: 9780963810946)
pages 134
description Holy Cows and Hog Heaven is written by an honest-to-goodness-dirt-under-the-fingernails, optimistic clean good farmer. His goal is to:<br /&...more
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12-05-06



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Sally
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03/30/08

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Read in March, 2008
recommends it for: everyone :)
Serendipitous.... I had this on hold at the library. Can't remember why. I just read Michal Pollan's In Defense of Food, which I loved, and he wrote the introduction to this book. And I just watched an episode of Chef's Afield that visited Polyface farm, which is the farm run by this author! I know I'll enjoy it.
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OK, so the writing wasn't exactly polished. The cover art is hokey. But this is such a timely treatise, from an actual farmer, with solid logic. I will ...more
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recommends it for: readers of the Omnivore's Dillema
This is the logical next step after you finish the Omnivore's Dillema. It is written by Salatin, the farmer with a halo on his head. He writes like an activist, and gives you concrete recommendations on how to responsibly buy your food. Sometimes you just have to pass over his political rants, but still worth reading. Written with such passion, you must forgive any faults you find in his writing.
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recommended to Tracey by: The FlynnJrs
recommends it for: everyone!
Salatin really draws you in with his personal stories and educated perspective on farming. He is extremely passionate about the need for each of us to become local food consumers and makes an educated case for why would should all care as much as he does.
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This guy is a wacko but right on about the food and farming part (just don't mind that he's a Christian Libertarian anti-abortionist who doesn't believe in global warming...)
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Fiesty farmer tells how to become part of the family farm-friendly food system.
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joel tells it like it is.
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