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ISBN: 9781933392769
Year Added to Catalog: 2007
Book Format: Paperback
Book Art: 16-page photo insert
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Number of Pages: 352 pages
Book Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Web Product ID: 407

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Mad Sheep

The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm

by Linda Faillace

Foreword by Ronnie Cummins

Praise

In the end the madness was found not in the sheep or with their shepherds, but in a society that has forgotten the importance of its own food and the purpose of its own governance. A riveting read.

George Schenk, founder of American Flatbread


[Mad Sheep] shows how far a corrupt government agency will go to protect industry. This is a truly Kafkaesque story.

Dr. Tom Pringle, founder of the Sperling Foundation


Mad Sheep documents the ugliest display of governmental ass-covering and the manipulation of questionable scientific data for political purposes that I have ever read. It will make your blood boil.

Gene Logsdon, organic farmer and author of The Contrary Farmer among many others


If you think your government wouldnt really lurk in the bushes to spy on you and use its police power to bully you--get ready for a rude awakening. Mad Sheep sounds like a crime thriller Agatha Christie would dream up, but its a real life nightmare lived by the Faillace family.

Jim Hightower


Linda Faillace's Mad Sheep is a tragic tale--tragic for the lives of those poor sheep, tragic for the shattered hopes of a family, but above all tragic for America. If you have ever been part of a family farm, Ms. Faillace's gripping account of how political-corporate corruption assaults the integrity of our system of democracy and free enterprise will seem hauntingly familiar. If you have not been part of a family farm, Mad Sheep will be downright terrifying.

Eugene Jarecki, filmmaker (Why We Fight, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, and others)


From the hearthside warmth of children farmer-entrepreneurs to the arrogant, hardhearted, tyranny of government bureaucracy, Mad Sheep touches the soul with tears and righteous anger. Though it reads like a fiction political thriller, this story of intrigue, bureaucratic falsehoods, and tyranny is true. Linda Faillace gives Americans yet another reason to mistrust every official announcement from the United States Department of Agriculture.

Joel Salatin, founder of Polyface Farm and author of Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal


Mad Sheep will enrage you. The real crazies in this true and tragic tale are the bureaucratic bullies who tortured and tormented heroic Vermont farmers while allowing a deadly dementia--mad cow disease--to emerge in America. The sheep are dead, lives destroyed, mad cow disease here, and the worst is that these bunglers are still running the show.

John Stauber, co-author of Mad Cow U.S.A.


Mad Sheep is one of those books that makes going to sleep at a decent hour unthinkable.

ACRES USA


If this were a novel, you probably wouldn't believe it. But the story of a Vermont farming family driven out of business by a government agency is true-and truly frightening. . . . If you can read the book without getting mad, you're not reading it carefully.

Booklist


Linda Faillace's Mad Sheep is a tragic tale—tragic for the lives of those poor sheep, tragic for the shattered hopes of a family, but above all tragic for America. If you have ever been part of a family farm, Ms. Faillace's gripping account of how political-corporate corruption assaults the integrity of our system of democracy and free enterprise will seem hauntingly familiar. If you have not been part of a family farm, Mad Sheep will be downright terrifying.

Eugene Jarecki, Filmmaker (Why We Fight, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, and others)



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