Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot

2 reviews

ashwaar's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

Regenesis was a brilliant and necessary read. Covering the systemic and disastrous effects of the modern farming industry, Monbiot excellently picks apart people's staggeringly inaccurate defence of the greatest cause of environmental destruction and offers insights into developing techniques that we'll be forced to use in the future as our food systems become increasingly unstable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

elerireads's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

Wow this was so interesting and exciting to read. I constantly hear about how destructive agriculture is and the dire state our soil is in, but not a whole lot about any solutions, and this book was brimming with them! Monbiot's curiosity and enthusiasm is infectious - it's got me really wishing I had the means to start up my own experimental farming project. Such an engaging writing style which centres anecdotally on the people he met who were trying different ways to do farming better, but at the same time I am completely reassured of the thoroughness of research and depth of understanding behind it all (sometimes I am quite sceptical of books - especially by journalists - that are structured this way). The notes and references section make up about a third of the thickness of the book, which is always reassuring to me.

My copy is covered in little sticky notes, annotations and underlinings (in pencil of course!) and I expect to be revisiting this as a useful resource. 

My one tiny criticism is that it was a bit slow to get going so it took me a while to get into it properly, but I'm so glad I stuck with it.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty