**Why Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other slow-food-loving locavores are wrong about food in America—and why Waffle House can save us all.“This book is sustenance for your mind as it imagines more democratic and delightful ways we can all fill our stomachs.” —Astra Taylor, author of Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone**The food industry is a major driver of climate change, pollution, obesity, animal suffering, and workplace exploitation. ...

Why Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other slow-food-loving locavores are wrong about food in America—and why Waffle House can save us allThe food industry is a major driver of climate change, pollution, obesity, animal suffering, and workplace exploitation. Many food writers blame the industrial food system and tell individual eaters to fix these problems by buying local, artisanal food from small farmers—a solution most Americans can't afford. But, as food poli...

Veteranenvironmental activist and Whale Wars hostPaul Watson offers in this interview a provocative and revolutionary view ofthe state of an environment in crisis. The planet may survive our environmentaldestruction, he argues, but humans may not. Focused on protecting oceans,preventing the loss of biodiversity, and promoting individual action, Watson’ssingular call to arms challenges the typical talking points of the modernenvironmental mov...