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  • Food, Farms, and Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops

    Food, Farms, and Solidarity by Heller, Chaia;

    French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops

    Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Duke University Press
    • Date of Publication 28 January 2013
    • Number of Volumes Cloth over boards

    • ISBN 9780822351184
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages352 pages
    • Size 235x156 mm
    • Weight 617 g
    • Language English
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    The ConfÉdÉration Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers. In Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Chaia Heller analyzes the group's complex strategies and campaigns, including a call for a Europe-wide ban on GM crops and hormone-treated beef, and a protest staged at a McDonald's. Her study of the ConfÉdÉration Paysanne shows the challenges small farms face in a postindustrial agricultural world. Heller also reveals how the language the union uses to argue against GMOs encompasses more than the risks they pose; emphasizing solidarity has allowed farmers to focus on food as a cultural practice and align themselves with other workers. Heller's examination of the ConfÉdÉration Paysanne's commitment to a vision of alter-globalization, the idea of substantive alternatives to neoliberal globalization, demonstrates how ecological and social justice can be restored in the world.

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    Table of Contents:

    About the Series ix
    Acknowledgments xi
    1. Introduction: Creating a New Rationality of Agriculture in a Postindustrial World 1
    Part I. Toward a New Rationality of Agriculture
    2. The New Paysan Movements: French Industrialized Agriculture and the Rise of the Postindustrial Paysan 39
    3. The ConfÉdÉration Paysanne: Philosophy, Structure, and Constituency 69
    Part II. The ConfÉdÉration Paysanne's Early Anti-GMO Campaign, from Risk to Globalization
    4. Union Activism and Programs: Early Campaigns and Paysan Agriculture 89
    5. We Have Always Been Modern: Toward a Progressive Anti-GMO Campaign 112
    6. The Trial of the GMOs: Deploying Discourses from Risk to Globalization 137
    Part III. How France Grew Its Own Antiglobalization Movement
    7. Caravans, GMOs, and McDo: The Campaign Continues 163
    8. Operation Roquefort, Part I: Traveling to Washington, DC 198
    9. Operation Roquefort, Part II: The Battle of Seattle 221
    10. Postindustrial Paysans in a Post-Seattle World: New Movements, New Possibilities 248
    11. Conclusion: French Lessons; What's to Be Learned 291
    Notes 307
    Works Cited 311
    Index 323

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