BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 THE ETHICS OF SOIL -- Agriculture and environmental ethics -- What philosophers can learn from agriculture -- What agriculture can learn from environmental ethics -- Some disclaimers -- The spirit of the soil -- 2 THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRITICS OF AGRICULTURE -- The critics of agriculture -- The critics of pesticide -- Critics of agricultural biotechnology -- Environmental ethics and the critics of agriculture -- Leopold and Schumacher -- 3 THE PRODUCTIONIST PARADIGM -- The problem of productionism -- The foundations of productionism -- Hard work -- The doctrine of grace -- The myth of the garden -- Productionism and industrial agriculture -- The new productionist paradigm -- Virtue, industry, and productivity -- 4 AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP AND THE GOOD FARMER -- Agrarian stewardship -- Wendell Berry's interpretation of agrarian stewardship -- Problems with agricultural stewardship -- Stewardship and environmental ethics -- 5 CALCULATING THE TRUE COST OF FOOD -- Positive economics and environmental impact -- Problems with positive economics -- Economic ethics and the argument from efficiency -- The case against efficiency -- Externalities and the true cost of food -- Externalities and the great economy -- 6 THE HOLISTIC ALTERNATIVE -- Varieties of holism -- Alan Savory -- Wes Jackson -- J.Baird Callicott -- Against reductionism -- The systems alternative -- The holistic alternative: does it work? -- 7 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE -- Sustainability as a system-describing concept -- Sustainability as a goal-describing concept -- Sustainability as an add-on -- Sustainability as intrinsic value -- Dicta on sustainable food systems -- Sustainability and bliss -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.