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Belasco persuasively traces organic food’s roots to the sixties counterculture. The contemporary accounts of People’s Park and the “People’s Garden” are on pages 19–22.
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———. “Trade-Offs in Agriculture and Nutrition,” Food Technology 59, no. 3, 120.
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———. “There Is No Denying This: Defusing the Confusion about Atrazine,” BioScience 54, no. 12 (December 2004).
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Manning, Richard. Commodities, Consensus and Conservation (April 2001). In his study of commodity agriculture, Manning quotes Plato on agriculture’s impact on the environment, and the importance of healthy soils (page 2):
What now remains of the formerly rich