Organic Movement

There is a major disconnect between what we wear and our knowledge of its impact on land, air, water, labor, and human health. Even those who value access to safe, local, nutritious food have largely overlooked the production of fiber, dyes, and the chemistry that forms the backbone of modern textile production. While humans are 100 percent reliant on their second skin, it’s common to think little about the biological and human cultural context from which our clothing derives.

Louis Bromfield was a World War I ambulance driver, a Paris expat, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist as famous in the 1920s as Hemingway or Fitzgerald. But he cashed in his literary success to finance a wild agrarian dream in his native Ohio. The ideas he planted at his utopian experimental farm, Malabar, would inspire America's first generation of organic farmers and popularize the tenets of environmentalism years before Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

THIS COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE DELVES INTO THE VITAL ROLES OF DIGESTION, EXCRETION, AND GUT HEALTH FOR BOTH HUMANS AND PETS, OFFERING A DETAILED EXPLORATION OF HOW OUR BODIES BREAK DOWN FOOD AND ELIMINATE WASTE. IT COVERS THE ESSENTIAL ORGANS INVOLVED IN DIGESTION, THE IMPACT OF DIET ON GASTROINTESTINAL HEALTH, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF POOR DIETARY CHOICES, SUCH AS PROCESSED FOODS AND THEIR LINK TO CHRONIC CONDITIONS. THE BOOK ALSO HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE OF ORGANIC FOOD, ITS BENEFITS FOR BOTH PERSONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, AND HOW A BALANCED DIET CAN SUPPORT A HEALTHY MICROBIOME. IN ...