Animals as Food : (Re)connecting Production, Processing, Consumption, and Impacts / Amy J. Fitzgerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzgerald, Amy J.

Series:

Animal turn.

The animal turn

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Every day, millions of people around the world sit down to a meal that includes meat. This book explores several questions as it examines the use of animals as food: How did the domestication and production of livestock animals emerge and why? How did current modes of raising and slaughtering animals for human consumption develop, and what are their consequences? What can be done to mitigate and even reverse the impacts of animal production? With insight into the historical, cultural, political, legal, and economic processes that shape our use of animals as food, Fitzgerald provides a holisti

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Prehistory through the Colonization of North America; 2. The Industrialization of Livestock Production; 3. The Industrialization of Slaughter and Processing; 4. Consuming Animals as Food; 5. Industrialization Fallout; 6. Bridging the Divide between Production, Processing, Consumption, and Impacts; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62895-234-2

1-60917-462-3

OCLC:

919565344