Very informative planning to recommend to friends

This book was interesting and I learned a lot. Some of it I knew, some I had already known, some I had inklings were happening but it explains a lot of why foods thay we have eaten for centuries are no longer the nutritional powerhouses they used to be. We need soil, healthy soil. I learned that lessen just trying to plant a front yard garden at my home and nothing grew the way they had in gardens past. I found out the home on this lot previously had burnt down and the dirt was never replaced so it is filled with garbage and the soil was wiped. So much work needs to be done to insure people will not starve over the next decades, we need to stop catering to the big corporations thay make equally big political donations, and only care about today's bottom line before we will no longer be able to support ourselves.

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a revealing account of modern agriculture

great details on how politics and economics have pushed modern farmers into the role of factory workers producing unhealthy cheap food and how we can change that for the better.

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Excellent book

I really enjoyed this audio-book. Stephanie's description of different farms attempting to move toward regenerative farming practices was an eye opener. It is so informative and I have encouraged others to listen to it.

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Can't listen

The narrator is horrible. She reads with such drama in her voice, so cheesy and overplaying, I can't take the subject seriously. I've read quite a few books about regenerative agriculture and unconventional farming, this one by bar the worst. This book is for young, easily impressed people who don't know anything about farming yet. Even then, I think they'd get bored soon. On top of slow intro, dramatic content, and poor narration, the actor speaks like she has a mouthful of nuts, very distracting and annoying, somebody has to fix her. I am returning this item.

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There is a lot of negativity

There is lot of negativity. A lot of what everyone is doing wrong and not how to it better. But I still liked it overall.

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Concept is good

I love the concept and the passion of this book but it can be misleading in some areas. For instance, organic farming doesn’t really mean regenerative. I understand where she drew the connection but it’s a stretch in some of the operations she highlights. Also does a very good job of demonizing CAFOs, which doesn’t help the overall message. What she describes them as would be worst-case scenario, and it’s misleading to the uninformed reader (or listener). As somebody who knows better, I’m less likely to accept her overall message (even though I agree with it) because she uses misleading information and emotional descriptions in an attempt to more easily convince readers to believe her. The evidence for regenerative ag speaks for itself, I think she should let it do so without making enemies within the agricultural community.

Thought provoking

Although I thought I knew a lot about this subject, I found that the author made me look at everything from a new perspective. The narrator grabbed my attention from start to finish - I was riveted!

stop fist pounding

while it is true we do need to eliminate the use of synthetics in agriculture, and return to natural remedies hey babe. when you pound your fist on a desk and demanded change right now, nobody wants to listen okay.. this book is just another one doing the same okay. she needs to learn some lessons from Gabe Brown

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