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Eleanor Boyle on Climate, Equality, & Health
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M O B I L I Z E   F O O D !
WARTIME INSPIRATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VICTORY TODAY

Now available : mid-2022

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WHERE TO BUY AND WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT ELEANOR BOYLE'S NEW BOOK, MOBILIZE
FOOD! WARTIME INSPIRATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VICTORY TODAY.


THEY TACKLED FOOD TO FACE A CRISIS. CAN WE?


ABOUT MOBILIZE FOOD! WARTIME INSPIRATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VICTORY TODAY

In late 1930s Britain, tens of millions of citizens prepared themselves for the
spectre of World War II. That included transforming the ways they produced and
consumed food in hopes they wouldn't go hungry amid the uncertainty and chaos of
conflict. A visionary Ministry of Food laid plans to try to ensure that every
individual would get basic nutrition, and a gutsy population on the 'home front'
grew more of their own vegetables, stopped wasting precious food, and shared
foods that had been made scarce by wartime.

As we grapple with our 21st Century climate crisis and the evidence that
conventional food systems feed environmental problems, can we take lessons from
this poignant story? Can we act decisively and courageously as others have, and
do food differently for our futures?   

My new book Mobilize Food! Wartime Lessons for Environmental Victory Today digs
into these questions to unearth motivation and hope for all of us who care about
climate and about food. Revealing clear lessons from this powerful wartime case
study, the book offers evidence for optimism if we are willing to act. Timely
and practical, Mobilize Food! shows how each of us can help achieve climate
stability and environmental sustainability  through food decisions in our homes
and communities. Ultimately, Mobilize Food! reveals the power of food systems
and choices for war and for peace.  


MOBILIZE FOOD! IS NOW AVAILABLE IN THREE FORMATS FROM:

 * FriesenPress (where it's been designated a staff pick!)


ALSO AVAILABLE IN PRINT FROM:

 * Amazon.com
 * Amazon.ca
 * Barnes & Noble
 * Chapters.Indigo.ca
 * Indigo Books
 * Bookshop


AS AN EBOOK:

 * FriesenPress
 * Amazon Kindle
 * Apple Books
 * Nook
 * Kobo
 * Google Play


BUY MOBILIZE FOOD! THROUGH A LOCAL BOOKSTORE NEAR YOU:

 * In Canada: ShopLocal
 * In the US: Indiebound


FOR ORGANIZATIONAL AND BOOK-CLUB DISCOUNTS, PLEASE EMAIL
ELEANOR@ELEANORBOYLE.COM.

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PRAISE FOR MOBILIZE FOOD!


PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT FOR ALL-HANDS-ON-DECK

"Today, Boyle argues persuasively, we need an all-hands-on-deck mobilization to
reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and slow our precipitous fall off the climate
change cliff. And her research into how the U.K. mobilized wartime food
production and distribution, presented in lucid prose with lots of moving
interviews with former U.K. residents, suggests many steps we could take in
Canada to reduce the environmental footprint of our food and thus reduce and
mitigate some of climate change’s worst impacts. We should listen to prophetic
voices like Boyle’s while we still can. Highly recommended."

— Tom Sandborn, Vancouver Sun Oct. 28, 2022


EMPOWERS AND CONSCIENTIZES

"We face a 'mighty challenge' ... and although food is not the only cause of
global warming and climate change, it is one of the places where we can start.
As M.S. Prakash, (1995) says, 'beginning with basics like the food we
uncritically consume several times a day… empowers and conscientizes us to make
radical changes.' Eleanor Boyle’s Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for
Environmental Victory Today does that."

— Mary Gale Smith, BC Review Nov. 18, 2022 and BCFoodHistory.ca


EMERGENCY MOBILIZATIONS NEED TO LOOK AND SOUND LIKE EMERGENCIES

“Mobilize Food! brings together an inspiring history with an urgent call to
re-imagine food and agriculture systems and practices in the present. Chock-full
of fascinating wartime history, it is a lovely reminder of how, with the right
kind of leadership, the public can be rallied to dramatically rethink its diet
and agricultural producers can quickly repurpose their activities. Importantly,
Boyle emphasizes that mobilization requires equity—it did in the war and does
again in the present—and that equity and improved wellbeing can be achieved even
in the context of sacrifice and a great societal undertaking. Boyle recounts how
wartime rationing actually improved nutrition and population health. She
highlights the role of mass communications, driving home that emergency
mobilizations need to look and sound like emergencies. As was the case in World
War II, Boyle urges that needed transformation not be left to voluntary measures
and that leadership and coordination on the part of government is essential if
we are to rapidly shift our agricultural systems to carbon zero.”

— Seth Klein, Author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency


A BRILLIANT BOOK THAT COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY

“A brilliant book that could not be more timely. Understanding the profound role
of food in peace and especially in war opens our eyes to the risks and
opportunities facing us as climate chaos looms. Not only do lessons from WWII
Britain teach us how to survive the coming disruption, they show us how to
mitigate the crisis and improve the outlook. Eleanor Boyle's lucid, encouraging
book hands us a strong new tool in the arsenal to fight the climate emergency
and more. Read and circulate it. The book is much needed.”

— Tara Cullis, President, David Suzuki Foundation


RADICAL BUT DO-ABLE

“As an anti-poverty activist, I feel it’s important to probe what has proven to
be effective as well as ineffective interventions as we seek to challenge food
insecurity, protect our right to food, and democratize nutrition. Eleanor
Boyle’s distillation of wartime food lessons clearly and thoughtfully helps us
do that. It paints the picture of an effort that was imperfect but bold, and
that was radical but do-able and with benefits for previously food insecure
citizens during that time.”

— Paul M. Taylor, Executive Director, FoodShare Toronto


SOLUTIONS ARE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US


“So often hunger, diet-related illnesses, and agricultural crises seem
insurmountable problems that only get worse each year. Eleanor Boyle’s Mobilize
Food! reminds us that concrete do-able solutions are right in front of us.
Drawing on the positive experiences of food in Britain in World War II as well
as creative programs being implemented now, Boyle advances clear solutions.
Public Health, Public Education, Public Libraries, Public Housing—it is time for
a Public Food System and a Ministry of Food!”

— Debbie Field, Coordinator, Coalition for Healthy School Food (Canada)

 


HOW QUICKLY AND DRAMATICALLY WE ARE CAPABLE OF CHANGING

“Knowledge of the past is vital, not only to understanding the present but also
for our easily forgotten potential to make change happen. In Mobilize Food!
Eleanor Boyle has performed an immensely valuable service by reminding us of how
quickly and dramatically we are capable of changing our relationship to food to
avoid climate catastrophe.”

— Andrew Simms, Co-director, New Weather Institute; Co-ordinator, Rapid
Transition Alliance, UK

 


IT’S BEEN DONE BEFORE, AND WE CAN DO IT AGAIN!

“For those who doubt that a nation can produce, share, and consume food in a way
that achieves sufficiency, justice, and ecological care, Eleanor Boyle has an
answer: It’s been done before, and we can do it again! Mobilize Food! is an
engaging and informative examination of how societies, past or future, can learn
to live within limits, whether imposed or voluntary, and become better, more
convivial societies in the process.”

— Stan Cox, plant scientist and Lead Scientist at The Land Institute, Salina,
Kansas

 


A CLARION CALL TO UNITE THE FOOD MOVEMENT

“Will it take a destructive global war to mobilize a worldwide food system
transformation for the better? We certainly hope not! It is precisely why we
should heed the lessons learned from the wars of the past and the revolutionary
work of various food activists globally. Mobilize Food! is a call that we need
wars on injustice, planetary destruction, corporate control of food, and a war
on a two-tiered system that relegates the poor to long line-ups at the food
bank. A clarion call to unite the food movement!”

— Tammara Soma, Assistant Professor, School of Resource and Environmental
Management (Planning) and Research Director, Food Systems Lab, Simon Fraser
University




BALANCES BEAUTIFUL AND TRAGIC HUMAN STORIES WITH ANALYTICAL ASSESSMENTS


“I really enjoyed reading Mobilize Food! Eleanor Boyle balances the beautiful
and tragic human stories of wartime with analytical assessments of government
interventions to assure Britons were nourished during World War II. She also
shows how we have much to learn from this period if we want to create today a
food system that focuses on health, equity, and sustainability.”

— Rod MacRae, Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change,
York University


BOTH A HISTORY AND A CALL TO ACTION

“I enjoyed Mobilize Food! as both a history and a call to action. Eleanor Boyle
delights with stories of Britain’s Ministry of Food, covering better known
topics such as victory gardens and lesser-known elements of the wartime food
system such as the Women’s Land Army. Boyle ties Britain’s agricultural war
effort to the current challenges of climate change. Her argument for more
sustainable and equitable diets is both sensible and achievable, combining
shifts toward more plant-based diets with a more general approach to global food
security. This is a very engaging book!”

— Lenore Newman, Director, Food and Agriculture Institute, Canada Research Chair
and Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of the Fraser
Valley


AN OPTIMISTIC YET REALISTIC LOOK AT THE PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES OF GLOBAL
FOOD PRODUCTION. 

"The first half of this book delineates the United Kingdom’s approach to
food-supply problems during the turbulent years leading up to and during the
Second World War. ... government instigated a bold campaign to change citizens’
expectations and approaches to farming and eating.... this system resulted in
better nutrition for poorer people in the nation and led to an overall healthier
citizenry with better morale. Boyle argues that our modern war is against
climate change, to which our current food production system contributes....
effectively outlines applicable lessons from the U.K.’s WWII–era food-supply
approach to problems of today, noting that change can occur in systems as well
as individual choices; that strong public leadership is a necessity; and that
nations need to come together in common cause....thoroughly researched and
referenced book is compelling, and many readers’ eyes will be opened to a
large-scale problem and the potential for addressing it through concerted,
deliberate action. Throughout, Boyle argues her points convincingly, and many
will find a sense of hope in her ideas. An optimistic yet realistic look at the
problems and possibilities of global food production."


— From Kirkus Indie Review Program at Kirkus Reviews


MOBILIZE FOOD! SUGGESTS A COMPELLING WAY FORWARD THROUGH THE EXAMPLES OF THE
PAST

Both a history book and an environmental analysis, Mobilize Food! suggests a
compelling way forward through the examples of the past...

"Mobilize Food! is a provocative call to arms for sustainability. Utilizing the
example of Britain’s wartime responses to food shortages and rationing, Boyle
makes a case for taking extreme measures to combat climate change. .... By
looking back into history, the book identifies a time and place that has
parallels to today’s climate crisis.... Boyle encourages people (especially in
the West) to adopt the same sense of urgency and solidarity that characterized
wartime Britain... Mobilize Food! is thoughtful in its approach to climate
change, drawing on a past example of a social response to a global crisis for
lessons that can be applied today."

— Matt Benzing, Foreword Clarion Review




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