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The killing of the countryside is a devastating attack on modern british agricultural policy and practice and a plea for a return to natural cycles an end to subsidies and the domination of agribusiness and for a safe sustainable farming system winner of the 1997 bp natural world book award. The killing of the countryside is absolute dynamite jonathan poritt bbc wildlife a modern grapes of wrath i have seldom read a more meticulous or devastating case for the prosecution the times to conclude if you really want to know what has happened to our countryside and why this is a very good book to read. The killing of the countryside is a devastating attack on modern british agricultural policy and practice and a plea for a return to natural cycles an end to subsidies and the domination of agribusiness and for a safe sustainable farming system winner of the 1997 bp natural world book award. Over then past fifty years the british countryside has changed out of all recognition a wide range of wildlife species are disappearing victims of modern intensive farming of pesticides and fertilisers and the sheer relentless pressure to maximise output from every hedge bank and field corner it need not have happened. The killing of the countryside is a devastating attack on modern british agricultural policy and practice and a plea for a return to natural cycles an end to subsidies and the domination of