Will Allen

Will Allen grew up on a small farm in southern California and served in the Marine Corps between the Korean and Vietnam wars. He received a PhD in Anthropology (focused on Peruvian tropical forest agriculture) and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, before being fired and sentenced to a year in jail for civil rights and antiwar activism. He returned to farming and farm labor full time in 1972 and has been farming organically ever since in Oregon, California, and Vermont, where he now comanages Cedar Circle Farm. He founded the Sustainable Cotton Project in 1991 and served as its executive director for thirteen years. He is currently a cochair of Farms Not Arms, is a policy advisory board member of the Organic Consumers Association, and serves on the board of Rural Vermont.

    Will's Upcoming Events

    • Will Allen at UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture event
      Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington VT 05405
      September 30, 2008, 12:00 pm

      Will Allen will discuss and sign copies of his book, The War on Bugs, at an event sponsored by the University of Vermont Center for Sustainable Agriculture on September 30th at 12:00 pm. Call 802-656-5459 to learn more.

    Will's Books

    The War on Bugs

    Will Allen’s War on Bugs reveals how advertisers, editors, scientists, large scale farmers, government agencies, and even Dr. Seuss, colluded to convince farmers to use deadly chemicals, hormones, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in an effort to pad their wallets and control the American farm enterprise.

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