I wish to read of the scandalous state of the world today...what would you recommend?

[CharlieAndLolasMummy]

please note,
am wish washy lefty lentil weaving Independanista, so am no Daily Mail stuff, and I do want reasonably well researched stuff, not gimickly stuff. But I would like to be pleasently scandalised.

What I would really like is to have not read Not Buying It, so I could read that again...

so far I have on my list

Black Gold

voluntary simplcity

oh and I have everything by naomi klein, george monbiot, etc etc.

Thoughts?

Toxic childhood - might be a bit lightweight for you tho

oh its just that i like to get my money's worth

looks interesting though, have put it on list...

Tescopoly?

oh yes, that does look pleasantly shocking, thank you. In basket...

You have read Fast Food Nation I guess

oh, what's it called? There's a great book by Peter Singer (serious philosopher) on food and where it comes from. Really recommend it.

Then there's a book called something like Car Sick, Solutions for a (something) World - by someone called something like Lynne Sloman.

Mayer Hillman has written some good stuff.

Tell us what's on your list! I'm always looking for good stuff like this!

"Not On The Label", by Felicity Lawrence. On similar lines to Tescopoly, but better written and less Daily Maily, IMO. Don't read it while eating chicken, though ........

oooh this is all good

Have read following out of suggestions:

Fast Food Nation (wrth CWS)

Not on the label. Actually, I am pretty sure I have read everything by Felicity Lawrence.

Anyone in a similar predicament, I'd recommend the following:

The food our children eat (Lawrence)

Anything by Naomi Klein

The State We're in - george monbiot (didn't get on so well with Age of Consent somehow, am halfway through Heat and its looking good)

Not Buying It-Judith Levine

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. OK, it's a novel as opposed to non-fiction (but a Pullitzer Prize Winner, so not any old novel ) set in a post-apocalypse US. You never get told what happened (global warming?) nuclear war?), but it certainly makes you sit up and think about where we're potentially headed. Harrowing as opposed to scandalising, but should do the job

Ah, it is you

what CAN ticky MEAN?

ps for some reason I can't see the dalek on your profile

will consider novel. I have to be careful with novels though as I get sucked in and then my life has to go on hold til I have finished them.

this website: www.commondreams.org

Try again - I had left out one of your capital letters.

Interesting things you never hear about in the mainstream press in The Ecologist Magazine

have you read The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan? That may interest you.

re omnivore's dilemma-no I haven't, but it looks good, thanks!

TT that is a fabulous dalek and your kids look splendid also

Hmm re the ecologist-
Thanks for recommending it, I do read it occasionally . I dunno, though, I can never decide about it. It REALLY pissed me off that its editor is advising the Tories on environmental stuff. I do think that this comes through in the opinions they present, which I think can be at times quite right wing and isolationist - more "buy an island and a big fence and live on it" than "lobby your local government for change " or even community based stuff. I am more into trying to work out solutions which work for society as a whole, but also, I think governmental solutions are absolutely essential. Grassroots stuff is great, but I don't think its sufficient-there just aren't enough people who give a feck, tbh.

Also I have been concerned at some of the science in it, and I tend to feel its aimed a bit at that section of the Green movement who, a few years ago, were advocating sterilisation for women after the birth of their first child (unfair I know).

I think I don't feel I am their target audience really...