UPDATED: Blog Talk Live: Interview with Steven McFadden, Author

by Dennis Kornbluh

Tune in to Blog Talk Live this Tuesday, November 17 at 6pm on KZUM 89.3 FM to hear Steven McFadden discuss his new book "The Call of the Land", published this month by NorLightsPress.

Globally, one in six of us is urgently hungry or starving, according to the United Nations. Yet obesity afflicts two-thirds of Americans and costs $147 billion in annual medical bills, Time Magazine reports. Industrial agriculture produces cheap food but erodes soil, poisons the environment with chemical inputs, and consumes 19% of U.S. fossil fuels. Peak oil, climate change, and wobbling economies further jeopardize our ability to feed ourselves.

“Food and farms are involved in a blitzkrieg of changes,” writes veteran journalist Steven McFadden in The Call of the Land. The book joins a growing chorus voicing a new vision for food and agriculture. Picking up where Food Inc., the recent documentary on industrial agriculture, leaves off, the volume presents dozens of creative responses to the crisis.

Dubbed “An Agrarian Primer for the 21st Century,” the sourcebook documents a wide range of proven, positive pathways to food security, economic stability, environmental health, and cultural renewal. To McFadden and others, the call of the land now is an SOS. The responses —from individuals, communities, cities, schools, churches, and businesses and — are both imaginative and practical.

Audio for the broadcast is provided in two parts below:

BTL_STEVEN_MCFADDEN_PART1 28:46

BTL_STEVEN_MCFADDEN_PART2 24:52

Blog Talk Live airs every Tuesday from 6-7pm on KZUM 89.3 FM, on Time-Warner cable channel 10, and on the web at kzum.org.

Comments

[Elizabeth Wolf]

Deep thanks for having Steven as a guest on "Blog Talk Live," Dennis. The show was a great success. Steven heard from his old friends Woody and Barbara in upstate NY, who emailed to say how much they enjoyed it. His publisher, tuning in from Indiana, was very pleased. And my friend CJ in Berkeley raced home from work to catch the show. It must be very satisfying to know you're reaching not only your own community but folks all over with the important messages of our day. Thanks for giving a platform to thinkers like Steven who can connect, educate, and inspire us. ~ Blessings, Elizabeth Wolf