"Fatal Harvest" is a keeper - the kind of book you may want to keep around for a long time. If you can, invest in the larger, more expensive version, which comes with over 250 well-chosen photographs. Art Director Danilea Goff-Sklan has created this book as an art form with some pages contrasting the industrial eye with the agrarian eye, on numerous foods and concepts, such as monoculture vs. diversity. If you like good nature photography, you will appreciate this book's compelling visuals.

In Project, Douglas Tompkins prologue, he reveals the four years and nearly a hundred participants it took to make this book, which he describes as "a call to arms - arms to hug with, arms to dig and plant with, and arms to link together..." Tomkins affirms an "agriculture that is local, family-scale and fully integrated with the richness and diversity of creation."

The book, fortunately, concludes with eight substantial essays on "Organic and Beyond." Dave Henson, of the influential Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) in Northern California, begins this final section with a thorough essay entitled "The End of Agribusiness: Dismantling the Mechanisms of Corporate Rule." Henson encourages us to confront the real source of our many problems - corporate control. Henson and associates at OAEC "walk their talk" on a beautiful, bountiful 80-acre farm, ecology education center, and intentional community.