The Omnivore's Delusion and Food, Inc.
In keeping with the point-counter point, we have two different points of view about modern agriculture. The first is Blake Hurst piece, "The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals." Published on July 30, 2009 in the "The American", the Journal of the American Enterprise Institute. Good reading.
For another opinion, opening this week in the latest anti-conventional agriculture, anti-food industry documentary "Food, Inc." A scathing attack on modern agriculture by filmmaker Robert Kenner and co-producer, Eric Schlosser, who gave us Fast Food Nation.
FYI - in Honolulu, "Food, Inc" opens July 31, 2009 at the Kahala Consolidated Theatres. Interesting that Chipotle Grill is a major corporate sponsor of "Food, Inc" and until October 2006 was owned and operated by McDonald's.
As with most things, the truth is somewhere in the middle.