I was initially skeptical about George Monbiot’s book about food production. I somehow had the impression he is against veganism or something, but Regenesis ended up, unexpectedly, being a book that sums up problems of and solutions to the current food system better than any other I’ve read. It all starts with soil, then the environmental impacts and social inequalities related to the current system are explored. Next we get to visit, in book form, farms doing something different in the current system, and finally, we get a glimpse into what the future and a whole new system could hold. Essentially, how, as the subtitle states, we can feed the world without devouring the planet. I want to read this again very soon and make detailed notes, this time I was in a bit of a rush because of a library deadline.

“The biggest population crisis is not the growth in human numbers, but the growth in livestock numbers.”