The Local Food Movement in the Works of Three American Nature Writers: Wendell Berry, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Barbara Kingsolver

Abstract

This thesis focuses on the importance of the local food movement that is an alternative solution against the destructive effects of industrial agriculture both for the environment and human beings. The main target of this thesis, similar to the concerns and aims of American nature writers Wendell Berry, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Barbara Kingsolver, is to show that a radical change can be made by individual choices in food production and consumption. Thus, as it is seen in the works of these three authors, the most effective measures against the devastating effects of industrial agriculture are consumers environmentally friendly individual choices. This study analyzes the harmful effects of industrial agriculture on land and people and it criticizes profit-oriented agribusiness companies which regard nature as a commodity. The Green Revolution, as the biggest weapon of the industrial agriculture, has become a threat for food security and has taken the bountiful farmlands of the local far