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Organic Resistance - The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France (Paperback)
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Organic Resistance - The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France (Paperback)
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France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and
as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French
farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard
stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the
French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as
hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass
production. With a twin focus on both the rise of big agriculture
and the organic movement, Bivar examines the tumult of postwar
rural France, a place fiercely engaged with crucial national and
global developments. Delving into the intersecting narratives of
economic modernization, the birth of organic farming, the
development of a strong agricultural protest movement, and the rise
of environmentalism, Bivar reveals a movement as preoccupied with
maintaining the purity of the French race as of French food. What
emerges is a story of how French farming conquered the world,
bringing with it a set of ideas about place and purity with a
darker origin story than we might have guessed.
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