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Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvii, 252 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The trillion-dollar meat industry is one of our greatest environmental hazards; it pollutes more than all the world's fossil-fuel-powered cars. Global animal agriculture is responsible for deforestation, soil erosion, and more emissions than air travel, paper mills, and coal mining combined. It also, of course, depends on the slaughter of more than 60 billion animals per year, a number that is only increasing as the global appetite for meat swells....
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xvi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meat eating is often a contentious subject, whether considering the technical, ethical, environmental, political, or health-related aspects of production and consumption. This book is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat consumption by humans, throughout their evolution and around the world. Setting the scene with a chapter on meat’s role in human evolution and its growing influence during the development of agricultural...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
vii, 326 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The "Minimalist" columnist and author of How to Cook Everything outlines an eating plan that is comprised of environmentally responsible choices, in a guide that shares insight into the risks associated with livestock production.
6) Food, Inc
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. w/ b&w seq. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
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