Grass-Fed Nation

b>For years we''ve been told that traditional foods are unhealthy because of their saturated fat content. In place of grass-fed meat, grass-fed dairy products, and eggs from hens running on pasture, we now mostly eat grain-fed meat and processed factory foods - and we''ve witnessed an epidemic of disease, from type-2 diabetes to heart disease and cancer./b>Modern agriculture has locked us into an unhealthy, vicious circle, with degraded foods pouring from an overstretched, impoverished landscape.There''s a simple remedy: the grass-fed movement. We can make sure that the meat, dairy foods and eggs we buy come from animals grazing on or running in pasture, as they always used to. This will also put life back into our soils and wildlife back onto our farmland.Graham Harvey, agricultural advisor to BBC Radio 4''s The Archers, lays out all the arguments for grass-fed food - why it''s good for us, and why it''s good for the planet.

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Graham Harvey has written on food and farming for Farmers' Weekly, the Sunday Times (UK) and the Daily Mail. His first book, The Killing of the Countryside, was winner of the BP Natural World Book Prize. He is also co-founder of the Oxford Real Farming Conference on low-input, ecological agriculture.

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Following the success of Joanna Blythman's "Swallow This" and Philip Lymbery's "Farmageddon", this book is an urgent manifesto for grass-fed foods. This is a huge topic in the US, set to be the new 'organic'.

Zusammenfassung
An urgent manifesto for grass-fed foods - for your health and for the planet.