New Seeds Of Profit

Author : Mark S. Ferrara
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498590233
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Seeds of Profit written by Mark S. Ferrara and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Captain Christopher Newport and his crew landed on the muddy banks of the James River in 1607, after four months at sea, they aimed to establish a new colony not for God, or the greater good of humanity—but for the sake of profit. The Pilgrims who settled in Cape Cod in 1620 as agents of Plymouth Company found evidence of divine election in the fortunes they accumulated from a lucrative system of town-founding in the New World. The innovative and often ruthless entrepreneurs who followed these colonists carved out the immense North American frontier wilderness from the Atlantic Ocean to the golden sands of the California coast, and they forged industrial and technological revolutions that shook the world. New Seeds of Profit examines the role of business leaders, from George Washington to Donald Trump, in shaping the United States into a business nation unlike any other in world history. By tracing the influence of industry and commerce on American society through portraits of successful entrepreneurs, this book sheds light on the esteemed place Americans reserve for their wealthiest business leaders—and it measures the true cost of that adulation by demonstrating how enterprise driven solely by the bottom line imperils people and the environment. In a story teeming with the heroes and villains of enterprise, New Seeds of Profit offers an innovative business model that provides meaningful work to employees and socially responsible returns to investors, while encouraging sustainable stewardship of the earth and advancing the common good.

Author : Courtney Fullilove
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645486X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Profit of the Earth written by Courtney Fullilove and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is enormous public interest in biodiversity, food sourcing, and sustainable agriculture, romantic attachments to heirloom seeds and family farms have provoked misleading fantasies of an unrecoverable agrarian past. The reality, as Courtney Fullilove shows, is that seeds are inherently political objects transformed by the ways they are gathered, preserved, distributed, regenerated, and improved. In The Profit of the Earth, Fullilove unearths the history of American agricultural development and of seeds as tools and talismans put in its service. Organized into three thematic parts, The Profit of the Earth is a narrative history of the collection, circulation, and preservation of seeds. Fullilove begins with the political economy of agricultural improvement, recovering the efforts of the US Patent Office and the nascent US Department of Agriculture to import seeds and cuttings for free distribution to American farmers. She then turns to immigrant agricultural knowledge, exploring how public and private institutions attempting to boost midwestern wheat yields drew on the resources of willing and unwilling settlers. Last, she explores the impact of these cereal monocultures on biocultural diversity, chronicling a fin-de-siècle Ohio pharmacist’s attempt to source Purple Coneflower from the diminishing prairie. Through these captivating narratives of improvisation, appropriation, and loss, Fullilove explores contradictions between ideologies of property rights and common use that persist in national and international development—ultimately challenging readers to rethink fantasies of global agriculture’s past and future.

Author : Bartow J. Elmore
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324002050
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future written by Bartow J. Elmore and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018—but its Roundup Ready® seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are still reshaping the farms that feed us. When researchers found trace amounts of the firm’s blockbuster herbicide in breakfast cereal bowls, Monsanto faced public outcry. Award-winning historian Bartow J. Elmore shows how the Roundup story is just one of the troubling threads of Monsanto’s past, many told here and woven together for the first time. A company employee sitting on potentially explosive information who weighs risking everything to tell his story. A town whose residents are urged to avoid their basements because Monsanto’s radioactive waste laces their homes’ foundations. Factory workers who peel off layers of their skin before accepting cash bonuses to continue dirty jobs. An executive wrestling with the ethics of selling a profitable product he knew was toxic. Incorporating global fieldwork, interviews with company employees, and untapped corporate and government records, Elmore traces Monsanto’s astounding evolution from a scrappy chemical startup to a global agribusiness powerhouse. Monsanto used seed money derived from toxic products—including PCBs and Agent Orange—to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically engineered technology. Skyrocketing sales of Monsanto’s new Roundup Ready system stunned even those in the seed trade, who marveled at the influx of cash and lavish incentives into their sleepy sector. But as new data emerges about the Roundup system, and as Bayer faces a tide of lawsuits over Monsanto products past and present, Elmore’s urgent history shows how our food future is still very much tethered to the company’s chemical past.

Author : John Elliot Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farming for Profit written by John Elliot Read and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Pierre-Benoist
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.6N/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeds written by John Pierre-Benoist and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1358 pages
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Total Pages : 1584 pages
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Download or read book Southern Planter & Farmer, Devoted to Argiculture, Horticulture and the Mining, Mechanic and Household Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 854 pages
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Download or read book American Agriculturist written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1358 pages
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Download or read book Farm Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 302 pages
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