The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock

The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock
ISBN-10
178032099X
ISBN-13
9781780320991
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
2013-11-14
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
Tony Weis

Description

The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand. Following his previous ground-breaking book The Global Food Economy, Tony Weis explains clearly why the growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical contradictions of industrial capitalist agriculture. The Ecological Hoofprint provides a rigorous and eye-opening way of understanding what this system means for the health of the planet, how it contributes to worsening human inequality, and how it constitutes a profound but invisible aspect of the violence of everyday life.

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