Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | Study Guide

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle chronicles Barbara Kingsolver's family's efforts to shift towards conscientious eating while providing scientifically based evidence to explain the growing problem in Americans' relationship with food. Barbara Kingsolver describes the lack of definite food culture in the United States while detailing the environmental, emotional, and physical costs of current food production and consumer habits. She details the Kingsolvers' evolution toward growing their own food and purchasing only locally sourced products and explains how sustainable farming practices can ease the impacts of commercial food production.