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Article: Food fight: local farming vs. agribusiness.(Book Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- December 27, 2003
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The Essential Agrarian Reader. Edited by Norman Wirzba. University Press of Kentucky, 256 pp., $27.00.
THE FARMER'S DINER in Barre, Vermont, serves the foods you would expect at a diner--ham and eggs, home fries, hamburgers, milkshakes. And it serves them at prices you would expect--the average cheek is about $7.50. Almost all of the food comes from within a 50-mile radius--which you also might expect, given that Barre is surrounded by good farmland, supporting pigs, chickens, potatoes, steers and dairy cows. But the fact that the food it serves is locally grown actually makes this place decidedly weird, the strangest diner in the country.
To open his ...