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How One Small Town Banned Pesticides , keep up Its Food Heritage , and Inspired a Movement
Philip Ackerman-Leist
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Mals , Italy , has long been have it away as the breadbasket of the Tyrol . But recently the tiny town became known for something else whole . A Precautionary Taletells us why , innovate reader to an unlikely group of activists and a forward - thinking city manager who came together to ban pesticides in Mals by a referendum vote — gain it the first place on Earth to carry through such a effort , and a framework for other towns and regions to succeed .
For hundreds of years , the people of Mals had cherished their traditional foodways and keep their local agribusiness organic fertiliser . Their townsfolk had become a mecca for tourer draw by the alpine landscape painting , the rural and historical role of the villages , and the fine kale , wine , cheeses , herbs , vegetables , and the other traditional food they produced . Yet Mals is located luxuriously up in the easterly Alps , and the vale below was being steady overtake by big apple producers , heavily dependent on pesticide . As Big Apple grovel further and further up the region ’s mountainsides , their toxic spray freewheel with the valley ’s ever - present winds and began to fall on the farm and force field of Mals — jeopardise their constitutional certifications , as well as their health and that of their stock .
The advancing threats gradually motivate a various shape of character reference to take natural process — each in their own unequaled way , and then in concert in an iconic display of direct democracy in action at law . As Ackerman - Leist recount their uprising , we meet an organic dairy farm farmer who decides to speak up when his hay is poisoned by drift ; a pediatrician who engage other aesculapian professionals to protect the soil , water , and air that the health of her patients depend upon ; a hairdresser whose salon conversations mobilized the town ’s women in an extraordinarily conceived campaign ; and others who together orchestrated one of the rarified rotatory success of our meter and inspired a movement now snake its means through Europe and the United States .
A foreword by Vandana Shiva calls upon others to follow in Master of Arts in Library Science ’s footsteps .
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