San Diego-based Richardson is a leading activist in the sustainable food movement. She offers general readers an assessment of the policies needed to fix the American food system. Coverage includes Richardson's route from eater to food activist, the development of chemical agriculture and the problems it causes, how to solve the problems in our food system through sustainable agriculture, what exactly sustainable agriculture is, the development of organic standards, movements in the U.S. to promote sustainable agriculture, and barriers to sustainable food in several areas--labeling, food safety, protecting children, human and animal rights, the farm bill--and how to remove them. No subject index. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)