Rural life in North America has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. The few remaining family farms now struggle to survive. They have been replaced by corporate-backed factory farms, mining interests and large-scale tourism developments, all favoured by governments with little understanding of, or sympathy for, traditional rural life--a life that is sustainable and healthy, he writes.

The author uses the microcosm of his own rural community in eastern Ontario to portray the groups around the world that are waging a war to save their rural way of life. The outcome of these clashes, Pawlick writes, will decide not only the future of rural life globally but also the quality and sustainability of our food, our water, our soil, and our air--the environment on which we depend for survival. A War in the Country argues, passionately and persuasively, that every one of us must join the fight to secure our food future.

Look for the book at Greystone Books, Chapters or Amazon.

An interview with Thomas Pawlick can be heard on CBC's The Current. (The interview can be found half-way down the page.)

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