CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (840 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1601090587 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The book is fantastic." -Martha Noble, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and Author"The book is stunning, visually and every other way." - Eric Schlosser, Author and journalist"Wow. That's all I can say." - Sarah Rosenberg, ABCNews Nightline"It's a powerful, oversized volume of images and writing on an issue that has been heating up this summer and promises to be in the news this fall as food safety legislation is debated in the Senate." - Michael Pollan, Author, journalist, activist, and professor
As the photos and essays in this powerful book demonstrate, the rise of the CAFO industry has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. CAFO takes readers on a behind-the-scenes journey into the alarming world of animal factory farming and offers a compelling vision for a food system that is humane, sound for farmers and communities, and safer for both consumers and the environment.. CAFO provides an unprecedented view of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations where an increasing percentage of the world’s meat, milk, eggs, and fish are produced. The intensive concentrations of animals in such crammed and filthy conditions dependent on antibiotic medicines and steady streams of subsidized industrial feeds poses serious moral and ethical considerations for all of us. Industrial livestock production is now a leading source of climate changing emissions, a source of water pollution, and a significant contributor to diet-related diseases, and the spread of food-borne illnesses
Everyone who eats food needs to read this book. This book is one of the most important on the topic of food production today. It strips away the false image of Old McDonald growing our food. Old McDonald no longer exists, except in very few places. If you want to know the truth about how our food is produced, what food is fed to our children in school lunch programs, and where that expensive steak or seafood or premium ice cream or crunchy bacon really came from - then you want to read this book. Then, please share it with everyone you know. Buy it for them for Christmas, no, better yet - before Thanksgiving. Then go shop at your local fo. Simply a Stunner I finally got my hands on this beauty. It's a dark beauty, to be sure, but a more powerful coffee table book you'll be hard pressed to find. By 'power' I mean the power to educate, at a glance, people from all backgrounds about the ethical violations that plague these massive animal farms. This book isn't anti-meatit's anti cruelty and waste.If you really mean to change minds about how animals are treated--this book and its images will be a powerful toolperhaps the most powerful one you'll ever own.. A must read if you care about animals and our environment CAFO - The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories is an incredible work that opened my eyes to the absolute horrors of factory farms. I am a blogger and was sent a review copy of this wonderful book and it set me on a path to help end factory farming.It's an enormous and powerful book that includes essays and large photos. The photos drive the point home that medieval practices towards intelligent animals occur everyday on factory farms.DismantlementOne of the essays I learned a lot from was "Dismantlement" by Erik Marcus of Vegan.com. While I'm not a vegetarian and I enjoy a good burger, I