Farmageddon
The True Cost of Cheap Meat
1st Edition
Published on 30. January 2014
448 pages
978-1-4088-4642-1 (ISBN)
Description
The quiet revolution of mega-farming that is threatening our countryside, farms and food.
'This eye-opening book . . . deserves global recognition' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
'Devastating . . . demands reading and deserves the widest possible audience' Joanna Lumley
'He is informed enough to be appalled, and moderate enough to persuade us to take responsibility for the system that feeds us' Guardian: Book of the Week
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.
From the antibiotics routinely given to industrially farmed animals to the chemicals that are killing our insect populations, Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world - from Europe to the USA, from China to Latin America. It is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices, and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future.
'This eye-opening book . . . deserves global recognition' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
'Devastating . . . demands reading and deserves the widest possible audience' Joanna Lumley
'He is informed enough to be appalled, and moderate enough to persuade us to take responsibility for the system that feeds us' Guardian: Book of the Week
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.
From the antibiotics routinely given to industrially farmed animals to the chemicals that are killing our insect populations, Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world - from Europe to the USA, from China to Latin America. It is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices, and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-4642-1 (9781408846421)
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Person
Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal welfare organization, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on the effects of industrial farming.
Isabel Oakeshott is a political journalist and commentator. A former Political Editor of the Sunday Times, she also co-wrote the unauthorised biography of UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Call Me Dave.
Isabel Oakeshott is a political journalist and commentator. A former Political Editor of the Sunday Times, she also co-wrote the unauthorised biography of UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Call Me Dave.
Content
- Cover
- Praise for Farmageddon
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- I RUDE AWAKENINGS
- 1 California Girls: a vision of the future?
- 2 Henpecked: the truth behind the label
- II NATURE
- 3 Silent Spring: the birth of the farming's chemical age
- 4 Wildlife: the great disappearing act
- 5 Fish: farming takes to the water
- 6 Animal Care: what happened to the vet?
- III HEALTH
- 7 Bugs 'n' drugs: the threat to public health
- 8 Expanding Waistlines: food quality takes a nose-dive
- IV MUCK
- 9 Happy as a Pig: tales of pollution
- 10 Southern Discomfort: the rise of the industrial chicken
- V SHRINKING PLANET
- 11 Land: how factory farms use more, not less
- 12 Thicker than Water: draining rivers, lakes and oil wells
- 13 Hundred-dollar Hamburger: the illustion of cheap food
- VI TOMORROW'S MENU
- 14 GM: feeding people or factory farms?
- 15 China: Mao's mega-farm dream comes true
- 16 Kings, Commoners and Supermarkets: where the power lies
- 17 New Ingredients: rethinking our food
- 18 The Solution: how to avert the coming food crisis
- 19 Consumer Power: what you can do
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Notes cont'd
- A Note on the Authors
- Compassion in World Farming
- eCopyright
