TY - JOUR AU - Mullen, Darcy PY - 2018/06/07 Y2 - 2024/03/18 TI - Saying Yes to the Precautionary Principle JF - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JA - J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev. VL - 8 IS - 2 SE - Review DO - 10.5304/jafscd.2018.082.004 UR - https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/581 SP - 157-159 AB - <p><em>First paragraph:</em></p><p>In <em>A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved Its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement,</em> Philip Ackerman-Leist tells the story of Mals, in Northern Italy. He does it in a way that makes the reader feel as if they have visited a very special place and an equally singular moment in time. Just as notably, this biography of place holds a steady eye to turns in elegant lan­guage. The title explains what happens in the book. The combination of the humanistic details and <em>how</em> the story is told, however, makes for a contem­porary socio-agricultural fairy-tale (if such a genre can exist), complete with a supplemental chapter at the end of the book called “An Activist’s Primer: How To Push Back on Pesticides At Home” (pp. 195–199)...</p> ER -