Farmageddon : the true cost of cheap meat / Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott.
2014
338.5 L986f 2014
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Title
Farmageddon : the true cost of cheap meat / Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott.
Author
ISBN
9781408846445
1408846446
1408846446
Published
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
Language
English
Description
xv, 426 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
338.5 L986f 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)860754823
(OCoLC)860754823
(OCoLC)860754823
Summary
Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world - from the UK, Europe and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. 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.--COVER.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : Old Macdonald
pt. I. Rude awakenings
California girls : A vision of the future?
Henpecked : The truth behind the label
pt. II. Nature
Silent spring : The birth of farming's chemical age
Wildlife : The great disappearing act
Fish : Farming takes to the water
Animal care : What happened to the vet?
pt. III. Health
Bugs 'n' drugs : The threat to public health
Expanding waistlines : Food quality takes a nose-dive
pt. IV. Muck
Happy as a pig : Tales of pollution
Southern discomfort : The rise of the industrial chicken
pt. V. Shrinking planet
Land : How factory farms use more, not less
Thicker than water : Draining rivers, lakes, and oil wells
Hundred-dollar hamburger : The illusion of cheap food
pt. VI. Tomorrow's menu
GM : Feeding people or factory farms?
China : Mao's mega-farm dream comes true
Kings, commoners and supermarkets : Where the power lies
New ingredients : Rethinking our food
The solution : How to avert the coming food crisis
Consumer power : What you can do.
pt. I. Rude awakenings
California girls : A vision of the future?
Henpecked : The truth behind the label
pt. II. Nature
Silent spring : The birth of farming's chemical age
Wildlife : The great disappearing act
Fish : Farming takes to the water
Animal care : What happened to the vet?
pt. III. Health
Bugs 'n' drugs : The threat to public health
Expanding waistlines : Food quality takes a nose-dive
pt. IV. Muck
Happy as a pig : Tales of pollution
Southern discomfort : The rise of the industrial chicken
pt. V. Shrinking planet
Land : How factory farms use more, not less
Thicker than water : Draining rivers, lakes, and oil wells
Hundred-dollar hamburger : The illusion of cheap food
pt. VI. Tomorrow's menu
GM : Feeding people or factory farms?
China : Mao's mega-farm dream comes true
Kings, commoners and supermarkets : Where the power lies
New ingredients : Rethinking our food
The solution : How to avert the coming food crisis
Consumer power : What you can do.
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