CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) : the tragedy of industrial animal factories / Daniel Imhoff, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Imhoff, Dan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Factory farms.

Factory farms--Pictorial works.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xiii, 324 pages : color illustrations ; 35 cm

Other Title:

Concentrated animal feeding operation

Tragedy of industrial animal factories

Place of Publication:

San Rafael, Calif. : Earth Aware, [2010]

Summary:

CAFO : The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories provides an unprecedented view of concentrated animal feeding operations, where increasing amounts of the world's meat, milk, eggs, and seafood are produced. As the photos and essays in this powerful book demonstrate, the rise of the CAFO industry around the world has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. Industrial livestock production is now a leading source of climate-changing emissions, a source of both freshwater and ocean pollution, and a significant contributor to diet-related diseases such as obesity and the spread of food-borne illnesses. The intensive concentration of animals in such crammed and filthy conditions dependent on antibiotic medicines and steady streams of subsidized industrial feeds poses serious moral and ethical concerns for all of us.

Contents:

Foreword / Douglas R. Tompkins

Introduction / Daniel Imhoff

Part I. The pathological mindset of the CAFO. Introduction : From agrarianism to industrialism ; Farm factories : the end of animal husbandry / Bernard E. Rollin ; Fear factories : the case for compassionate conservatism for animals / Matthew Scully ; Cold evil : the ideologies of industrialism / Andrew Kimbrell ; Renewing husbandry : the mechanization of agriculture is fast coming to an end / Wendell Berry ; Man, the paragon of animals? : Questioning our assumptions about evolution / Christopher Manes

Part II. Myths of the CAFO. Myth : industrial food is cheap ; Myth : industrial food is efficient ; Myth : industrial food is healthy ; Myth : CAFOs are farms, not factories ; Myth : CAFOs are good for rural communities ; Myth : industrial food benefits the environment and wildlife ; Myth : industrial food can feed the world ; Myth : CAFO manure is a benign resource

Part III. Inside the CAFO. Introduction : what the industry doesn't want us to know ; Power steer : on the trail of industrial beef / Michael Pollan ; Boss hog : the rapid rise of industrial swine / Jeff Tietz ; Watching the chickens pass by : the grueling monotony of the disassembly line / Steve Striffler ; The milk of human unkindness : industrialization and the supercow / Anne Mendelson ; Floating hog farms : industrial aquaculture is spoiling the aquatic commons? / Ken Stier, Emmett Hopkins

Part IV. The loss of diversity. Introduction : extinction is forever ; Old MacDonald had diversity : the role of traditional breeds in a dynamic agricultural future / Donald E. Bixby ; Squeezed to the last drop : the loss of family farms / Tim Philpott ; Assault on nature : CAFOs and biodiversity loss / George Wuerthner ; Narrowing of poultry breeds ; Traditional versus industrial beef and dairy cattle ; Traditional swine and lean hogs ; Demise of the family farmer ; Loss of industrial farms

Part V. Hidden costs of CAFOs. Introduction : economists have forgotten how to add ; From farms to factories : pillaging the commons / Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ; Bad meat : deregulation makes eating a high-risk behavior / Eric Schlosser ; CAFOs are in everyone's backyard : industrial agriculture, democracy and the future / Kendall Thu ; Paying the polluters : animal factories feast on taxpayer subsidies / Martha Noble ; Diet for a hot planet : livestock and climate change / Anna Lappé

Part VI. A rough and rocky horror show. Introduction : a small sample of CAFO production around the world

Part VII. Technological takeover. Introduction : from farms to high-tech ; Antibiotic drug abuse : CAFOs are squandering vital human medicines / Leo Horrigan, Jay Graham, Shawn McKenzie ; Franken food : livestock cloning and the quest for industrial perfection / Rebecca Spector ; Nuclear meat : using radiation and chemicals to make food "safe" / Wenonah Hauter

Part VIII. Putting the CAFO out to pasture. Introduction : toward a humane, equitable, and sustainable food system ; Toward sustainability : moving from energy dependence to energy exchange / Fred Kirschenmann ; The good farmer : an agrarian approach to animal agriculture / Peter Kaminsky ; Changing the law : the road to reform / Paige Tomaselli, Meredith Niles ; A chef speaks out : making the case for taste / Dan Barber ; Dismantlement : a movement to topple industrial animal agriculture / Eric Marcus ; Healing : restoring health, wealth, and respect to food and farming / Joel Salatin ; Vote with your fork : it's time for citizens to take back the food system / Daniel Imhoff

Know where your food comes from

What you can do

A glossary of CAFO terms and euphemisms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781601090584

1601090587

OCLC:

460054467