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I bought this book thinking it would be something like "A Year Without Made in China" whereby the author gives their attempt at getting by without products made in China, and the failures and humorous anecdotes along the way. I thought maybe this book would be similar but instead Kingsolver (and her family as well) comes across as preachy and arrogant. First of all you must realize that if you are "eating healthy" by eating more fruits and vegetables, that is not enough. Nor is eating organic fruits, vegetables, and meats. Nooo, you must be eating locally grown organic (although not necessarily certified because that's just too damn expensive) fruits, vegetables, and meats. Really, you should have your own apple orchard, nut trees, vegetable garden, lambs, chickens, and turkeys. Ok, if you've stayed with me this far you're doing great. Now you know the entire food industry is in cahoots with the oil industry, right? I mean corn syrup for soft drinks, corn in your corn chips, corn grown with machinery that uses fossil fuels, shipped to you with fossil fuels is bad bad bad...I mean using fossil fuels for your food production is a major theme in this book, with Kingsolver harping over & over about it. But wait! She visits friends in Massachusetts that have fantastic tasting tomatoes that are grown far earlier in the season than anyone else in New England can dream of! How in the world do they do this!??? Well, by golly, they have a greenhouse! Wait, isn't it too cold in Mass. for the greenhouse? Well, they heat it with...wait for it...natural gas! You know that silly old fossil fuel that is we're running out of! Ok, sarcasm over, you get the idea. There are so many flaws in the book like this it's pathetic, I'll only mention the trip to Italy, the drive around the country, etc. The endless preaching wears thin but is perfect therapy if you grew up Catholic. Also, it seems incredibly hard to believe that the family had no failures. Everything was a success! Asparagus, tomatoes, potatoes, chickens,..no pests, no crop failures, no droughts. If you have ever had a garden in the summer you know this never happens. By the way, Mrs. Kingsolver, was the paper used to print the million copies of your book grown on locally harvested trees? Wait, the paper came from trees in Canada shipped to the U.S.A.? What were you thinking!?