Purchase
The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment
Macmillan
March 2010
On Sale: March 2, 2010
513 pages
ISBN: 0312380585
EAN: 9780312380588
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction
Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and
other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating
parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because
of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how
our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In
Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David
Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests
behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the
far-reaching fallout that contaminates our air, land, water,
and food. In this thoroughly-researched book, Kirby follows three
families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by
immense neighboring animal farms. These farms (known as
“Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations,” or CAFOs), confine
thousands of pigs, dairy cattle, and poultry in small
spaces, often under horrifying conditions, and generate
enormous volumes of fecal and biological waste as well as
other toxins. Weaving science, politics, law, big business,
and everyday life, Kirby accompanies these families in their
struggles against animal factories. A North Carolina
fisherman takes on pig farms upstream to preserve his river,
his family’s life, and his home. A mother in a small
Illinois town pushes back against an outsized dairy farm and
its devastating impact. And, a Washington state grandmother
becomes an unlikely activist when her home is covered with
soot and her water supply is compromised by runoff from
leaking lagoons of cattle waste. Animal Factory is an important book about our American food
system gone terribly wrong—and the people who are fighting
to restore sustainable farming practices and save our
limited natural resources.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy