The ecological hoofprint : the global burden of industrial livestock
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The ecological hoofprint : the global burden of industrial livestock
Zed Books, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-179) and index
Contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1508/2015301233-t.html
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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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: meatification and why it matters
1. Contextualizing the hoofprint: global environmental change and inequality
2. The uneven geography of meat
3. The industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex
4. Confronting the ecological hoofprint: towards a more sustainable, just, and humane world
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