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Chickenizing Farms and Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers
Ellen K. Silbergeld
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Description for Chickenizing Farms and Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3, 1 black & white line drawings, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 1KLSB; 3JJ; JFCV; KNAC; KNDF; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 602.
Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the globe, often at the expense of human health. In Chickenizing Farms and Food, Ellen K. Silbergeld reveals the unsafe world of chickenization-big agriculture's top-down, contract-based factory farming system-and its negative consequences for workers, consumers, and the environment. Drawing on her deep knowledge of and experience in environmental engineering and toxicology, Silbergeld examines the complex history of the modern industrial food animal production industry and describes the widespread effects of Arthur Perdue's remarkable agricultural innovations, which were ... Read more
Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the globe, often at the expense of human health. In Chickenizing Farms and Food, Ellen K. Silbergeld reveals the unsafe world of chickenization-big agriculture's top-down, contract-based factory farming system-and its negative consequences for workers, consumers, and the environment. Drawing on her deep knowledge of and experience in environmental engineering and toxicology, Silbergeld examines the complex history of the modern industrial food animal production industry and describes the widespread effects of Arthur Perdue's remarkable agricultural innovations, which were ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
601g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421420301
SKU
V9781421420301
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99-50
About Ellen K. Silbergeld
Ellen K. Silbergeld is a professor of environmental health sciences, epidemiology, and health policy and management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 1993, she was the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant.
Reviews for Chickenizing Farms and Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers
An insightful book that should be of interest to anyone who eats food, animal or not.
Kirkus Reviews
This engaging treatise lays out a compelling case for reexamining the way we produce the food we eat. Required reading for those who are interested in learning more about where our food comes from.
Library Journal
Little doubt ... Read more
Kirkus Reviews
This engaging treatise lays out a compelling case for reexamining the way we produce the food we eat. Required reading for those who are interested in learning more about where our food comes from.
Library Journal
Little doubt ... Read more