BTL's Dose of No-Nonsense: Serving #6
Submitted by clelia on August 22, 2008 - 12:11pm
A Dose of No-Nonsense is a regular sampling from the No-Nonsense Guides published by Between The Lines. Courtesy of Paula Brill from BTL.
- About 170 million food producers are child laborers, which speaks to the poverty and mistreatment subsidizing low food prices.
- Farming has the highest rate of bankruptcy and suicide of any occupation.
- Agriculture accounts for half the world's toll of workplace deaths, with 175,000 lives a year sacrificed to improper equipment management and abuse of farm chemicals.
- A $6.4-trillion-a-year food economy that sells a necessity of life impoverishes more people than any other economic sector.
No-Nonsense Guide to World Food • September 2008 • 184 pages • ISBN 978-1-897071-44-1 • $16.00
No-Nonsense Guide to World Food • September 2008 • 184 pages • ISBN 978-1-897071-44-1 • $16.00
Find out more about the No-Nonsense Guides and other fine books from Between The Lines at the press's website.
