The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
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The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
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Overview
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.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780984630417 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Watershed Media |
| Publication date: | 07/16/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 480 |
| File size: | 836 KB |
Table of Contents
Foreword Douglas R. Tompkins ix
Introduction Daniel Imhoff xiii
Part 1 The Pathological Mindset of the CAFO
Introduction: From Agrarianism to Industrialism 3
Farm Factories: The End of Animal Husbandry Bernard E. Rollin 6
Fear Factories: The Case for Compassionate Conservatism-for Animals Matthew Scully 15
Cold Evil: The Ideologies of Industrialism Andrew Kimbrell 29
Renewing Husbandry: The Mechanization of Agriculture Is Fast Coming to an End Wendell Berry 44
Man, the Paragon of Animals? Questioning Our Assumptions About Evolution Christopher Manes 52
Part 2 Myths of the CAFO
Myth: Industrial Food Is Cheap 63
Myth: Industrial Food Is Efficient 66
Myth: Industrial Food Is Healthy 69
Myth: CAFOs Are Farms, Not Factories 72
Myth: CAFOs Are Good for Rural Communities 75
Myth: Industrial Food Benefits the Environment and Wildlife 78
Myth: Industrial Food Can Feed the World 81
Myth: CAFO Manure Is a Benign Resource 84
Part 3 Inside the CAFO
Introduction: What the Industry Doesn't Want Us to Know 89
Power Steer: On the Trail of Industrial Beef Michael Pollan 92
Boss Hog: The Rapid Rise of Industrial Swine Jeff Tietz 109
Watching the Chickens Pass By: The Grueling Monotony of the Disassembly Line Steve Striffler 125
The Milk of Human Unkindness: Industrialization and the Supercow Anne Mendelson 131
Size Matters: The Meat Industry and the Corruption of Darwinian Economics Steve Bjerklie 139
Floating Hog Farms: Industrial Aquaculture Is Spoiling the Aquatic Commons? Ken Stier Emmett Hopkins 147
Part 4 The Loss of Diversity
Introduction: Extinction Is Forever 161
Old MacDonald Had Diversity: The Role of Traditional Breeds in a Dynamic Agricultural Future Donald E. Bixby 164
Squeezed to the Last Drop: The Loss of Family Farms Tom Philpott 176
Assault on Nature: CAFOs and Biodiversity Loss George Wuerthner 182
Narrowing of Poultry Breeds 191
Traditional Versus Industrial Beef and Dairy Cattle 192
Traditional Swine and Lean Hogs 193
Demise of the Family Farmer 194
Loss of Individual Farms 195
Part 5 Hidden Costs of CAFOS
Introduction: Economists Have Forgotten How to Add 199
From Farms to Factories: Pillaging the Commons Robert F. Kennedy 202
Bad Meat: Deregulation Makes Eating a High-Risk Behavior Eric Schlosser 206
CAFOs Are in Everyone's Backyard: Industrial Agriculture, Democracy, and the Future Kendall Thu 210
Paying the Polluters: Animal Factories Feast on Taxpayer Subsidies Martha Noble 221
Sliced and Diced: The Labor You Eat Christopher D. Cook 232
Diet for a Hot Planet: Livestock and Climate Change Anna Lappé 240
Part 6 Technological Takeover
Introduction: From Farms to High-Tech 251
Antibiotic Drug Abuse: CAFOs Are Squandering Vital Human Medicines Leo Horrigan Jay Graham Shawn McKenzie 254
Franken Food: Livestock Cloning and the Quest for Industrial Perfection Rebecca Spector 262
Genetically Engineered Farm Animals: A Brazen Effort to Make Nature Fit the Industrial Mold Jaydee Hanson 273
Nuclear Meat: Using Radiation and Chemicals to Make Food "Safe" Wenonah Hauter 287
Part 7 Putting the CAFO Out to Pasture
Introduction: Toward a Humane, Equitable, and Sustainable Food System 297
Toward Sustainability: Moving from Energy Dependence to Energy Exchange Fred Kirschenmann 300
The Good Farmer: An Agrarian Approach to Animal Agriculture Peter Kaminsky 308
Changing the Law: The Road to Reform Paige Tomaselli Meredith Niles 314
A Chef Speaks Out: Making the Case for Taste Dan Barber 330
Dismantlement: A Movement to Topple Industrial Animal Agriculture Erik Marcus 336
The Farmer's Bind: Scaling Up for a Different Kind of Agriculture Becky Weed 348
Healing: Restoring Health, Wealth, and Respect to Food and Farming Joel Salatin 355
Vote with Your Fork: It's Time for Citizens to Take Back the Food System Daniel Imhoff 366
Know Where Your Food Comes From 375
What You Can Do 376
What Policy Makers Can Do 377
Contributors 379
Resources 385
A Glossary of CAFO Terms and Euphemisms 395
Selected Bibliography 400
Acknowledgments 404
Credits 405
Notes 407
Index 439