Factory farming
著者
書誌事項
Factory farming
B. Blackwell, 1991
大学図書館所蔵 全13件
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The quality of diet is being questioned as never before, as public attention focuses on additives, irradiation, drug and persticide residues and the threat of food--borne infections such as salmonella and listeriosis. In this book, Andrew Johnson subjects modern farming methods to a scrutiny which reveals them to be not only responsible for a decline in food quality but highly questionable on environmental and humanitarian grounds. Factory Farming is the most comprehensive survey to date of the implications of modern livestock farming for food quality and safety, for the animals themselves and the environment as a whole. As well as covering the more familiar issues of battery egg production and the use of hormone growth promoters, the author discusses the rapid rise of fish farming, the capabilities of genetic engineering and the hidden envirnmental costs of high--tech livestock production systems. Illustrated throughout, Factory Farming is a compelling examination of modern farming techniques and the disastrous conseuqences their continued use might have.
目次
- Part 1 Man the controller: the agricultural enterprise
- from farm to factory
- taming and ownership. Part 2 Practical choices: the choice of diet
- free range or factory?
- in sickness and in health. Part 3 Moral choices: why care about animals?
- the assessment of animal welfare
- welfare in modern farming. Part 4 The environmental angle: livestock in the countryside
- fishfarming and the environment
- farming for a healthy planet. Part 5 Do we get what we want?: politics and profits
- serving the consumer. Part 6 Prospects for reform: battle joined
- the international scene
- little by little.
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