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Frontline farmers: how the National Farmers Union resists agribusiness and creates our food future

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    Fernwood Publishing, 2019

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    2019
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    Who grows the food we eat? How important is it that family farms are viable in Canada today and in the future? How do viable family farms help determine the safety, diversity and sustainability of Canada's food systems? Why is this important to those of us who do not farm? Frontline Farmers introduces readers to the National Farmers Union (NFU). For over fifty years, the NFU has been on the frontlines of our food system. From fighting against transnational corporations that seek to control our food system by imposing genetically modified organisms into our food, to protecting seeds, maintaining orderly marketing, saving the prison farms, keeping the land in the hands of family farmers, farming ecologically and building food sovereignty, the NFU has been front and center of farm and food activism. This book collects the voices of NFU members who tell the stories of the key struggles of the progressive farm movement in Canada: fighting to build viable rural communities, protecting the family farm and creating socially just and ecologically sustainable food systems. Frontline Farmers reveals that the stakes for controlling our food in Canada have never been higher.

    Contents:
    • Recounting the past, counting on the future: stories of the NFU / Nettie Wiebe
    • Krafting a boycott: the NFU takes on a corporate giant / Carla Fehr
    • Stopping Monsanto: coalition building against rBGH and GM Wheat / Carla Fehr ; Emily Eaton
    • Protecting seeds / Terran Giacomini
    • Organizing the market: the Canadian Wheat Board / Andre Magnan
    • Farming ecologically: the NFU in Ontario / Bryan Dale
    • Saving our prison farms: cows, community and civil disobedience / Asha Nelson ; Meghan Entz
    • Owning the island: the question of land in Prince Edward Island / Naomi Beingessner
    • Embracing agrarian feminism: "the farm is Mary's and mine" / Carla Roppel
    • Inspiring re-generation of farming: NFU youth / Terran Giacomini
    • Globalizing solidarity: La Via Campesina and food sovereignty / Asha Nelson ; Annette Aurelie Desmarais
    • Building relationships: indigenous-settler solidarity and the NFU / Lauren Kepkiewicz ; Terran Giacomini.
    Original Publisher: Halifax, Fernwood Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781773631738