Page 10 RAIN January 1979 AGRICULTURE Books about Food and Land, from: Earthwork 3410 19th St. San Francisco, CA 94110 The people at' Earthwork continue to clo good things to get the word out about food and land issues. This catalog of the materials they sell mail order also acts as a thorough bibliography on agribusiness, farming, farmworkers, nutrition and more. It's a simple, easy way to get hold of lots of helpful materjals. They also sell to co-ops for resale. Check it out. -LdeM • Journal of the New ZeaJand Tree _Crop Association, edited by D. H. Ryde, 84 pp., bi-annual, $6/year subscription for membership from: , New Zealand Tree Crop Assn. Mr. D. J. Davies Crop Research Division, D.S.I.R. Lincoln, Canterbury, NEW ZEALAND A grassroots organization with regional branches shares information among its members via this journal which includes plant exchanges, recipes, bibliography and current tree information useful for tree people not only in New Zealand, since ma·ny crops suitable there are precisely those suited to the Pacific Coastal Regions. (Thanks to Peter W. Butcher, Research Assistant, NZTCA)-LS .(lgribusiness Manual, $5.00 from: Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility Room 566 4 7 5 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10027 A valuable adjunct to Food First, this collection of background papers on corporate responsibility for world hunger is heartening to see. It indicates that the churches are moving out of their band-aid/charity approach ·to world hunger to recognizing the causes of it and beginning to take the actions that are our responsibility. The National Council of Churches is cited in the manual as listing four root causes of hunger: unjust economic systems, inefficient food production, population growth, and patterns of consumption among the affluent. Corporations or corporate-related activity is cited as contributing to three of these four causes. Excellent background papers cover food production, commodity trade, agricultural inputs, nutrition of processed foods, U.S. farmer/consumer responses, and theological reflections and actions. Interesting data throughout-supermarke'ts who always voice • their low profit margins (only 1-3 per- . cent of sales) actually get H. percent return on investment-considerably ab<:>Ve averages for other industries. Also interesting report on church ac- .tions to requir~ disclosure of largest 30 voting stockholders of corporations (not their front organizations). A valuable research/study guide for community and church groups and • even you and me. -TB BAD GUYS The Hidden History of the Korean War, I. F. Stone, 1952, $5.95 from: Monthly Review Press 62 West 14th Street New York, NY 10011 This book exploded into 1!1Y consciousness how much we can be taken in by our own propaganda, how powerfully it affects the course of the world whether we consider people to be basically good or basically evil, and how the willful acts of a single person (one of us) can (and did) cause and lead us into an unwanted war. I grew up believing the Korean War to have been a just one. No longer. Stone courageously exposed and brought together a stinging indictment of General MacArthur's successful efforts to get us into a war with Korea, and his willful attempts to expand tl;ie war into a general nuclear ' combat with China and Russia. Stone's • long repressed picture of the Korean War and the shams-behind it shines a new light on the U.S. It shows Vietnam to be not an anomaly but a repeating pattern of intervention in the affairs of others for the profit of certain American special ~nterests. It shows a recurrfng -· weakness in our inability to ·support and live by the principles we propoundsupporting oppressive and inhumane governments in other countries in exchange for allowing us to commit economic pillage of those countries. And it shows clearly what we need to learn and practice to be able to live with selfrespect and the respect of others. -TB ,,, .,....._
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