Interview with Tom Philpott, author of Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It

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Splitter, Jenny. “Tom Philpott, ‘Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It .’” New Books in Animal Studies, March 4, 2021. Mp3, 59:23.

Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) is an unsettling journey into the disaster-bound American food system, and an exploration of possible solutions, from leading food politics commentator and former farmer Tom Philpott… . Resource scarcity looms on the horizon, but rather than pointing us toward an inevitable doomsday, Philpott shows how the entire wayward ship of American agriculture could be routed away from its path to disaster. He profiles the farmers and communities in the nation’s two key growing regions developing resilient, soil-building, water-smart farming practices, and readying for the climate shocks that are already upon us; and he explains how we can help move these methods from the margins to the mainstream. (Source: New Books Network)

In this episode of New Books in Animal Studies, Jenny Splitter interviews Tom Philpott, author of Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It.

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