Jane Goodall's Harvest For Hope

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The book “Harvest for Hope”, written by Jane Goodall, outlines and inspires the audience to eat mindfully and healthily. The author explains how a great portion of our nutrient intake is unknowingly mixed with toxins, and made in miserable conditions. Dr. Goodall explains this successfully by analyzing the typical practices of industrial agriculture, which then leads her on to examine the repercussions of these techniques, pressing the point that we are fatally detached from nature and it’s ethics. This novel informs the public not only how to leave a small environmental footprint, but also how one can do so positively. Jane Goodall associates many of humanity’s problems to the way the nutrition is composed. She criticizes the US government

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