Aggravating book but still worth reading. Packed with research on the policy, market, and business motives that warped our agricultural system. The author is a farmer who is fighting unimaginable, deeply-fixed mechanisms that too many of us are ignorant and dismissive of because we were taught to scorn farming culture in favor of business and knowledge work. Farmers are frustrated and desperate for action at policy level, and they need our help.

Fail: author paints scientists in negative stereotypes while advocating for progressives to stop doing the exact same thing to farmers.

Success: depth of research on the disasterous state of our food system, and the purposeful destruction of peoples' connection with the land and the autonomy to make a fulfilling living outside the relentless growth model of capitalism.