Grilled
Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 2019
288 pages
978-1-4729-6259-1 (ISBN)
Description
'An animal activist's journey to the "other side"' Joanna Lumley
This is the story of what happens when we cross enemy lines to look for solutions.
Leah Garcés has dedicated her career to fighting for the rights of the animals that end up on our plates. As the former US Executive Director of Compassion in World Farming and the current President of the non-profit group Mercy for Animals, she has led the fight against the sprawling chicken industry that raises billions of birds in cruel conditions - all to satisfy our appetite for meat.
Grilled is Leah's story of working alongside the food and farming industry for animal welfare and ethical food. Instead of fighting and protesting and shaming - approaches that simply haven't worked previously - Garcés has instead tried to find common ground with producers. She has worked alongside owners of the megafarms, befriending them, having frank conversations with them, and ultimately encouraging change through dialogue and discussion. Leah is helping to directly improve the lives of millions of farm animals, and pushing alternatives such as plant-based substitutes and lab-grown meats to the top of the agenda, with some of the mega-farm conglomerates joining forces with her to explore these avenues.
When she started her journey, Leah Garcés did not have much empathy to spare for the contract chicken farmer -until she actually met one and tried to understand the difficulties they faced. This is the story of giving in to discomfort for the sake of progress. It's a story of the power of human connection, and what happens when we practice empathy toward our enemies.
This is the story of what happens when we cross enemy lines to look for solutions.
Leah Garcés has dedicated her career to fighting for the rights of the animals that end up on our plates. As the former US Executive Director of Compassion in World Farming and the current President of the non-profit group Mercy for Animals, she has led the fight against the sprawling chicken industry that raises billions of birds in cruel conditions - all to satisfy our appetite for meat.
Grilled is Leah's story of working alongside the food and farming industry for animal welfare and ethical food. Instead of fighting and protesting and shaming - approaches that simply haven't worked previously - Garcés has instead tried to find common ground with producers. She has worked alongside owners of the megafarms, befriending them, having frank conversations with them, and ultimately encouraging change through dialogue and discussion. Leah is helping to directly improve the lives of millions of farm animals, and pushing alternatives such as plant-based substitutes and lab-grown meats to the top of the agenda, with some of the mega-farm conglomerates joining forces with her to explore these avenues.
When she started her journey, Leah Garcés did not have much empathy to spare for the contract chicken farmer -until she actually met one and tried to understand the difficulties they faced. This is the story of giving in to discomfort for the sake of progress. It's a story of the power of human connection, and what happens when we practice empathy toward our enemies.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-6259-1 (9781472962591)
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09/2019
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Person
Leah Garcés was the founder and Executive Director of Compassion in World Farming US and is now the President of Mercy for Animals. She has degrees in zoology and sustainable development and has been fighting for better food and farming systems for her whole career.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: The Determined Mother Duck
- Smart Chicks
- What a Chicken Wants
- Chapter 2: The Belly of the Beast
- Where Factory Farming Was Born
- The modern chicken
- The Rebel Alliance
- Finding the Courage to Leap
- Chapter 3: No Good Choices
- Caring About Chicken
- Through the Looking Glass
- Getting to the Truth
- Hidden in Plain Sight
- Chapter 4: The Unlikely Alliance
- Crossing the Line
- Unnatural Circumstances
- Too Good to Be True
- Chapter 5: Crossing Enemy Lines
- A Mile in His Shoes
- No Way to Get Ahead
- Entering the Nightmare
- Wall to Wall Suffering
- Chapter 6: The Story Breaks
- Bred to Suffer
- Putting a Team Together
- Live from Georgia
- Paying the Price
- The Truth Fights Back
- What We Won
- Chapter 7: Farmers Coming Out of the Woodwork
- A Tournament with No Winners
- Get Out
- Sick Birds, Sick System
- Bad Bugs
- Chapter 8: How Healthy Is Chicken, Really?
- Rotting Alive
- When a Plan Comes Together
- The Truth Comes Out
- White Striping, Woody Breast, and Spaghetti Meat
- Chapter 9: The Radicals
- Winning Without Fighting
- On the Other Side of the Fence
- The Insider
- How Change Happens
- Chapter 10: The Year the Impossible Happened
- Expanding our Hearts
- Meeting Jim Perdue
- The Power of Human Connection
- Chapter 11: Business as Usual Is Not an Option
- The Dead Zone
- How Far We've Come, How Far We Have to Go
- The First Post-it
- Away From Business as Usual
- Staying the Course
- Chapter 12: Regeneration
- Farming to Heal
- The Dream Team
- Standing Room Only
- Inspired to Serve
- Toward Regeneration
- Chapter 13: Tempt, Don't Bully, Darlings
- Fabulously Meat-Free
- Betting Against the Burger
- A Smart Investment
- Chapter 14: Brontosaurus Burger
- Secret Labs
- A Glimpse of the Future
- Dining with Ian
- Chinese Trade Deals and Mega-Meat Makers
- From Dream to Reality
- The End of Slaughter
- A Taste of the Future
- Chapter 15: The Win-Win
- Capitalism with a Conscience
- Good Food for the Future
- Refuse the Easy Road
- Epilogue: 2050
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Copyright
