In this eye-opening book, Sierra Club director Ken Midkiff exposes the dangers posed by corporate control of agriculture (agribusiness)—to our health, and to the health of the nation’s economy and security and the environment.
The Meat You Eat explores the current practices of the corporations that have taken over the raising and slaughtering of farm animals (and farmed fish, such as salmon). These companies use a model that has transformed livestock farming from quality-driven, family-owned operations into big businesses concerned with volume, efficiency, uniformity, and profits above all. Midkiff reveals the true cost of agribusiness on all levels—environmental, financial, moral, legal, and medical—balancing startling truths with practical solutions.
“Ken Midkiff has written a serious and trenchant critique of modern livestock farming and the merciless spirit that drives it on. He has also pointed the way out, by advancing clear and decent standards in the care of animals.”
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“Don’t just gag—act”
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“The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of America’s rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. Citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty. But, as Ken Midkiff shows in this wonderful book, the meat barons’ most frightening threat is to American democracy.”
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