Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and Organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale\'s Organic Manifesto irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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Maria Rodale joined the family business in 1987, first working in circulation and direct marketing and eventually leading Rodale\'s in-house direct marketing agency. com, which features the latest news and information about healthy living on a healthy planet, as well as her blog, Maria\'s Farm Country Kitchen.
She is founding editor of the company\'s newest online venture, Rodale.
Rodale reaches 70 million people worldwide through brands such as Prevention and Men\'s Health; through books such as The South Beach Diet and Al Gore\'s An Inconvenient Truth; and through numerous digital properties.
About the Author: Maria Rodale is the CEO and Chairman of Rodale Inc., the world\'s leading multimedia company with a focus on health, wellness, and the environment, and the largest independent book publisher in the United States.
For every parent wondering how best to safeguard the health and safety of her children; for every environmentalist in search of a solution to the worsening crisis that afflicts our land, air, and waters; for every shopper who questions whether it is worth it to pay more for organic, Maria Rodale offers straightforward answers and a single, definitive course of action: We must demand Organic now.
She further explains that modern Organic farming would not only help reverse climate change by reducing harmful carbon emissions and soil depletion, but would also improve the quality of the Food we eat, reduce diseases from asthma to cancer, and ensure a better quality of life in farming communities nationwide.
She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government\'s role in allowing such practices to flourish.
Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and Organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale\'s Organic Manifesto irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment
