You Know You Live near a Factory Farm When Your Kids Go Fishing with a Pool Skimmer: An Uncensored Look at Today's Farming Practices

By Doug Baird

In Rural America the biggest threat to the health and well-being of the community is the same activity that once strengthened and nurtured it — farming. Industrial farming is rolling the dice against a dystopian future of environmental meltdown, antibiotic-resistant pathogens, and genetically modified organisms in a race to quickly amass wealth. Using a simple picture-book style, and the buoyancy of humor, this book navigates the flood of destructive farming practices that have already engulfed the rural community, and are spreading.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Doug Baird
• Release date: Aug 24, 2018
• ISBN: 9780989860888

Doug Baird

Doug Baird is an artist, writer, and poet living in rural Tompkins County, NY. His wide work experience has led him from the warehouse to corporate finance and product development, and to a variety of industrial and commercial art jobs. Doug is project leader for the Idea Enhancement Project, a Fiscally Sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, exploring the use of visual imagery as a practical tool for increasing innovative and creative thinking. IdeaEnhancement.org Published in 2019: Family Farm Fun: A Satirical Activity & Game Book about the Hazards of Industrial Farming; promotes rural social justice through the use of humor and satire. Cornithaca County (2020) takes a wider view of the destruction of human worth through 300 color pages of games, mazes, riddles, poems, sing-a-longs, essay, posters and activities. Tompkins County and Tammany Hall [I can't seem to find any difference at all] (2022) – is an all-text book documenting more than 10 years of rural issues and involvement; presenting a circumstantial case for widespread misconduct. He is the author of two poetry collections: As a Poet, I have a Confession and Please Take Care when You Utter a Curse, and a picture book: You Know You Live near a Factory Farm When Your Kids Go Fishing with a Pool Skimmer, and an upcoming poetry book [Shortening]. Representative artworks can be viewed at DougBairdArt.com With the completion of All Roads Lead to Cornithaca; Doug will return to work on the Idea Enhancement Project, pencils drawings, and printmaking.

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