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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle_ A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver [186]

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Populations in Rustic and Planted Shade Coffee Plantations of Eastern Chiapas, Mexico,” Biotropica 29, no. 4 (1997): 501–14.

Adriana Valencia, Birds and Beans: The Changing Face of Coffee Production, World Resources Institute, May 2001, earthtrends.wri.org/ features/view_feature.php?theme=7&fid=35.

Global network of fair trade organizations: www.ifat.org/.

For more on migratory birds and coffee, visit: nationalzoo.si.edu/Conser vationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/Coffee/.

LEGISLATING LOCAL

Community Food Security Coalition, Farm to Cafeteria in 2006: Helping Farmers, Kids, and Communities, www.foodsecurity.org/policy.html #F2C.

The National Farm to School Network: www.farmtoschool.org/ and www.farmtocollege.org/.

How Local Farmers and School Food Service Buyers Are Building Alliances, www.ams.usda.gov/tmd/MSB/PDFpubList/localfarmsandschool.pdf. Small Farms/School Meals Initiative: www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Lunch/Downloadable/small.pdf.

The National Association of Farmers’ Market Nutrition Programs: www.nafmnp.org/.

About the Authors

BARBARA KINGSOLVER’s twelve books of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction include the novels The Bean Trees and The Poisonwood Bible. Translated into nineteen languages, her work has won a devoted worldwide readership and many awards, including the National Humanities Medal.

STEVEN L. HOPP teaches environmental studies at Emory and Henry College and conducts research in bioacoustics and the natural history of vireos.

CAMILLE KINGSOLVER attends Duke University, where she studies biology, anatomy, and dance, and teaches yoga.

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By the Same Author

FICTION

Prodigal Summer

The Poisonwood Bible

Pigs in Heaven

Animal Dreams

Homeland and Other Stories

The Bean Trees

ESSAYS

Small Wonder

High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

POETRY

Another America

NONFICTION

Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands

(with photographs by Annie Griffiths Belt)

Holding the Line:

Women in the Great Arizona

Mine Strike of 1983

Credits

Jacket design by PAOLA ECHAVARRIA

In the front cover photograph by STEVEN L. HOPP,

Lily is holding Christmas lima beans, an heirloom variety included in the Slow Food of USA Ark of Taste.

Copyright

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE. Copyright © 2007 by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

ePub edition © April 2007 ISBN: 9780061795831

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Dedication

Image

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Acknowledgments

References

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