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Ecological Hoofprint : The Global Burden Of Industrial Livestock
Paperback Edition: 1/2013
The meat on our plates kills the planet. With global mass production of livestock reaching ever higher levels to feed an exploding world population's demand, mankind's ecological hoofprint reaches critical heights. The Ecological Hoofprint provides a rigorous and eye-opening analysis of global livestock production. Following
his previous groundbreaking Zed book 'The Global Food Economy', Tony Weis shows what this production 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 systemic violence. This book explains how the phenomenal growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical contradictions of industrial capitalist agriculture and of ongoing and future food crises.
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Pages : 188
Publisher : Zed Books
Publication date : 2013-11
Subjects: Non-fiction, Reference, Science And Technology, Research & Information, Earth Science, Engineering, Development Studies, Social Impact Of Environmental Issues, Animal Husbandry