The World Is Not for Sale: Farmers Against Junk Food

by Jose Bove, Francois Dufour, Anna De Casparis (Translator), Naomi Klein (Foreword by), Gilles Luneau (Preface by)

Overview

In this lively and hard-hitting book Jose Bove and Francois Dufour recount the dramatic events of their famous demonstration against McDonald’s and examine the issues behind the resulting campaign, which has now stretched from France and Seattle around the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781859844052
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	10/17/2002
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at the Nation Institute and author of The Shock Doctrine.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Preface	ix
	List of abbreviations	xiii
Part 1	Two Fighting Farmers
1	McDonald's: Bove's Story	3
2	McDonald's: Dufour's Story	19
3	Jose and Francois: Thirty Years Preparing the Ground	32
Part 2	The Damaging Effects of Intensive Farming
4	The Beginnings of Junk Food	53
5	Farming Against Nature	78
6	The Factory Farm	106
Part 3	We can Change the World
7	Sharing the Land	123
8	Freedom from 'Free Trade'	145
	Postscript: Seattle-on-Tarn	171
	Appendices
Appendix 1	From social protest to a critique of society: some key dates in the history of the Farmers' Confederation	197
Appendix 2	The Charter for Sustainable Farming: farming that respects the farmer and meets the needs of society	202
Appendix 3	Useful addresses	205

Editorial Reviews

Today McDonald’s, tomorrow the world.”—Times

“Naomi Klein’s No Logo, Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, The Silent Takeover by Noreena Hertz and now Bove’s book are the bibles of the anti-capitalist movement.”—Guardian

“Critics frequently accuse the opponents of economic globalization of not presenting any alternative ... The World is Not for Sale couldn’t prove them more wrong.”—Red Pepper

“In tune with the movement for which it will become a core text.”—Independent

“The peasant leader regarded as a hero in the battle to save France from fast food and free trade is bringing his revolt across the channel to protest against the ‘perversion’ of British agricultural policy.”—Sunday Times

“... a call to action, and a timely reminder of the principle: ‘Think globally, act locally.’”—Food Magazine

“A vivid testament to the extraordinary potential when local communities, heroic direct actionists and employees come together in creative alliances against corporate power.”—New Statesman

“... an engaging account of two twentieth-century heroes who, in their fight for sustainable agriculture, have embraced the larger vision for a more just, healthy, and harmonic global community.”—clamor magazine

“It is refreshing to read informed argument by people who are both left wing and who, as working farmers, know what they are talking about.”—Socialist Review

From the Publisher

It is refreshing to read informed argument by people who are both left wing and who, as working farmers, know what they are talking about.

Socialist Review

... an engaging account of two twentieth-century heroes who, in their fight for sustainable agriculture, have embraced the larger vision for a more just, healthy, and harmonic global community.

clamor magazine

A vivid testament to the extraordinary potential when local communities, heroic direct actionists and employees come together in creative alliances against corporate power.

New Statesman

... a call to action, and a timely reminder of the principle: 'Think globally, act locally.'

Food Magazine

The peasant leader regarded as a hero in the battle to save France from fast food and free trade is bringing his revolt across the channel to protest against the 'perversion' of British agricultural policy.

Sunday Times

In tune with the movement for which it will become a core text.

Independent

Critics frequently accuse the opponents of economic globalization of not presenting any alternative ... The World is Not for Sale couldn't prove them more wrong.

Red Pepper

Naomi Klein's No Logo, Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, The Silent Takeover by Noreena Hertz and now Bove's book are the bibles of the anti-capitalist movement.

Guardian

Today McDonald's, tomorrow the world.

Times

... an engaging account of two twentieth-century heroes who, in their fight for sustainable agriculture, have embraced the larger vision for a more just, healthy, and harmonic global community.

Clamor Magazine