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What´s the Matter with Meat?
Katy Keiffer
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Description for What´s the Matter with Meat?
Paperback. A salutary, hard-hitting critique of the meat-producing industry and its harmful effects, What's the Matter with Meat? exhorts consumers to resist the lure of cheap meat, governments to encourage alternative production systems, and the industry itself to amend its practices. Series: Food Controversies. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: KNDF; WB; WBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 120. .
What's the Matter with Meat? draws back the curtain that obscures the true costs of indus-trialized meat production. The book exposes how the industry is expanding worldwide ata rapid pace, with just a few large companies monopolizing the majority of the market. This global survey of factory-produced meat examines the practices of the industry in five major production centres: the usa, Europe, Brazil, Australia and Asia. The system generates enormous corporate profits while providing very low prices to consumers, but has an outsized and often negative impact on surrounding communities. Katy Keiffer focuses on issues such as labour, genetics, animal ... Read more
What's the Matter with Meat? draws back the curtain that obscures the true costs of indus-trialized meat production. The book exposes how the industry is expanding worldwide ata rapid pace, with just a few large companies monopolizing the majority of the market. This global survey of factory-produced meat examines the practices of the industry in five major production centres: the usa, Europe, Brazil, Australia and Asia. The system generates enormous corporate profits while providing very low prices to consumers, but has an outsized and often negative impact on surrounding communities. Katy Keiffer focuses on issues such as labour, genetics, animal ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Food Controversies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780237602
SKU
V9781780237602
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Ref
99-15
About Katy Keiffer
Katy Keiffer, a former food service professional, produces and hosts What Doesn't Kill You, a long-running weekly radio podcast on the Heritage Radio Network that focuses on the intersections of people, policy and the food system.
Reviews for What´s the Matter with Meat?
'Katy Keiffer highlights the environmental, human, and animal welfare truths that the international meat industry tries to hide from consumers in this a compelling - and necessary - book.' - Barry Estabrook author of Pig Tails: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat