The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories

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"Not only are most of the top critics of factory farming gathered together, the excerpts chosen represent some of their most important work. In short, no other book provides such a thorough introduction to factory farming."--"National Catholic Reporter"

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"Gives a full picture of the environmental, social, and ethical implications of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations."--"Grist Magazine: Environmental News & Commentary"

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"For those who care about one of the greatest moral failings of our times, the Cafo Reader is indispensable."--"Choice"

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"Essential reading."--"Evening Standard"

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"The [book] is not meant solely to create shock and awe, but instead provides lines of reasoning that have the capacity to stick."--"Edible San Francisco"

Brief Description:
"The CAFO Reader" is possibly the most powerful indictment of factory farming ever compiled, with essays from 30 of the world's leading experts. It also offers a vision for a food system that leaves behind the horrific 20th century model of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations.
"The CAFO Reader" brings the tragic world of industrial food production into sharp focus with essays on every facet of factory farming: health, environment, animal welfare, labor, politics, economics, and so on. This affordable reader is a companion book to the larger photo-essay volume, "CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories." It is sure to become a relied-upon resource for activists, food policy makers, academics, the media and the general public for many years. This project is a follow-up to the highly successful project "Fatal Harvest," published in 2002. It is being supported by an extensive outreach campaign with events around the country.


Brief Description:
CAFO (Concentrated animal feeding operation)--P. [4] of cover.

Marc Notes:
CAFO (Concentrated animal feeding operation)--P. [4] of cover.;Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-403) and index.;The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories provides an unprecedented overview of concentrated animal feeding operations - aka CAFOs - where increasing amounts of the world's meat, milk, eggs, and seafood are produced.-back cover.

Table of Contents:
Foreword / Douglas R. Tompkins -- Introduction / Daniel Imhoff -- Part 1. The Pathological Mindset of the CAFO -- Introduction: From Agrarianism to Industrialism -- Farm Factories: The End of Animal Husbandry / Bernard E. Rollin -- Fear Factories: The Case for Compassionate Conservatism-for Animals / Matthew Scully -- Cold Evil: The Ideologies of Industrialism / Andrew Kimbrell -- Renewing Husbandry: The Mechanization of Agriculture Is Fast Coming to an End / Wendell Berry -- Man, the Paragon of Animals? Questioning Our Assumptions About Evolution / Christopher Manes -- Part 2. Myths of the CAFO -- Myth: Industrial Food Is Cheap -- Myth: Industrial Food Is Efficient -- Myth: Industrial Food Is Healthy -- Myth: CAFOs Are Farms, Not Factories -- Myth: CAFOs Are Good for Rural Communities -- Myth: Industrial Food Benefits the Environment and Wildlife -- Myth: Industrial Food Can Feed the World -- Myth: CAFO Manure Is a Benign Resource -- Part 3. Inside the CAFO -- Introduction: What the Industry Doesn't Want Us to Know -- Power Steer: On the Trail of Industrial Beef / Michael Pollan -- Boss Hog: The Rapid Rise of Industrial Swine / Jeff Tietz -- Watching the Chickens Pass By: The Grueling Monotony of the Disassembly Line / Steve Striffler -- The Milk of Human Unkindness: Industrialization and the Supercow / Anne Mendelson -- Size Matters: The Meat Industry and the Corruption of Darwinian Economics / Steve Bjerklie -- Floating Hog Farms: Industrial Aquaculture Is Spoiling the Aquatic Commons? / Ken Stier, Emmett Hopkins -- Part 4. The Loss of Diversity -- Introduction: Extinction Is Forever -- Old MacDonald Had Diversity: The Role of Traditional Breeds in a Dynamic Agricultural Future / Donald E. Bixby -- Squeezed to the Last Drop: The Loss of Family Farms / Tom Philpott -- Assault on Nature: CAFOs and Biodiversity Loss / George Wuerthner -- Narrowing of Poultry Breeds -- Traditional Versus Industrial Beef and Dairy Cattle -- Traditional Swine and Lean Hogs -- Demise of the Family Farmer -- Loss of Individual Farms -- Part 5. Hidden Costs of CAFOS -- Introduction: Economists Have Forgotten How to Add -- From Farms to Factories: Pillaging the Commons / Robert F. Kennedy -- Bad Meat: Deregulation Makes Eating a High-Risk Behavior / Eric Schlosser -- CAFOs Are in Everyone's Backyard: Industrial Agriculture, Democracy, and the Future / Kendall Thu -- Paying the Polluters: Animal Factories Feast on Taxpayer Subsidies / Martha Noble -- Sliced and Diced: The Labor You Eat / Christopher D. Cook -- Diet for a Hot Planet: Livestock and Climate Change / Anna LappE -- Part 6. Technological Takeover -- Introduction: From Farms to High-Tech -- Antibiotic Drug Abuse: CAFOs Are Squandering Vital Human Medicines / Leo Horrigan, Jay Graham, Shawn McKenzie -- Franken Food: Livestock Cloning and the Quest for Industrial Perfection / Rebecca Spector -- Genetically Engineered Farm Animals: A Brazen Effort to Make Nature Fit the Industrial Mold / Jaydee Hanson -- Nuclear Meat: Using Radiation and Chemicals to Make Food Safe / Wenonah Hauter -- Part 7. Putting the CAFO Out to Pasture -- Introduction: Toward a Humane, Equitable, and Sustainable Food System -- Toward Sustainability: Moving from Energy Dependence to Energy Exchange / Fred Kirschenmann -- The Good Farmer: An Agrarian Approach to Animal Agriculture / Peter Kaminsky -- Changing the Law: The Road to Reform / Paige Tomaselli, Meredith Niles -- A Chef Speaks Out: Making the Case for Taste / Dan Barber -- Dismantlement: A Movement to Topple Industrial Animal Agriculture / Erik Marcus -- The Farmer's Bind: Scaling Up for a Different Kind of Agriculture / Becky Weed -- Healing: Restoring Health, Wealth, and Respect to Food and Farming / Joel Salatin -- Vote with Your Fork: It's Time for Citizens to Take Back the Food System / Daniel Imhoff -- Know Where Your Food Comes From -- What You Can Do -- What Policy Makers Can Do -- Contributors -- Resources -- A Glossary of CAFO Terms and Euphemisms -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Notes -- Index.

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• Choice 12/01/2010 (EAN 9780970950055, Paperback)