| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) |
| Series |
Food, health, and the environment |
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Food, health, and the environment.
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| Contents |
Introduction to the global meat industry: expanding production, consumption, and trade / Bill Winders and Elizabeth Ransom -- Corporate concentration in global meat processing: the role of feed and finance subsidies / Philip H. Howard -- Aquatic CAFOs: aquaculture and the future of seafood production / Conner Bailey and Nhuong Tran -- China's global meat Industry: the world-Ưshaking power of industrializing pigs and pork in China's Reform Era / Mindi Schneider -- Amerindians, mestizos, and cows in the Ecuadorian Amazon: the silvopastoral ecology of small-Ưscale, sustainable cattle ranching / Thomas K. Rudel -- Cheap meat and cheap work in the U.S. poultry industry: race, gender, and immigration in corporate strategies to shape labor / Carrie Freshour -- Contributions to global climate change: a cross-Ưnational analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from meat production / Riva C.H. Denny -- Livestock intensification strategies in Rwanda: ethical implications for animals and a consideration of potential alternatives / Robert M. Chiles and Celize Christy -- Conclusions about the global meat industry: consequences and solutions / Elizabeth Ransom and Bill Winders |
| Summary |
The growth of the global meat industry and the implications for climate change, food insecurity, workers'rights, the treatment of animals, and other issues. Global meat production and consumption have risen sharply and steadily over the past five decades, with per capita meat consumption almost doubling since 1960. The expanding global meat industry, meanwhile, driven by new trade policies and fueled by government subsidies, is dominated by just a few corporate giants. Industrial farming--the intensive production of animals and fish--has spread across the globe. Millions of acres of land are now used for pastures, feed crops, and animal waste reservoirs. Drawing on concrete examples, the contributors to Global Meat explore the implications of the rise of a global meat industry for a range of social and environmental issues, including climate change, clean water supplies, hunger, workers'rights, and the treatment of animals. Three themes emerge from their discussions: the role of government and corporations in shaping the structure of the global meat industry; the paradox of simultaneous rising meat production and greater food insecurity; and the industry's contribution to social and environmental injustice. Contributors address such specific topics as the dramatic increase in pork production and consumption in China; land management by small-scale cattle farmers in the Amazon; the effect on the climate of rising greenhouse gas emissions from cattle raised for meat; and the tensions between economic development and animal welfare |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed December 13, 2022) |
| Subject |
Meat industry and trade -- Environmental aspects
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Meat industry and trade -- Social aspects
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Meat industry and trade -- Environmental aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Winders, William, 1971- editor.
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Ransom, Elizabeth (Elizabeth P.), editor.
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| ISBN |
9780262355384 |
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0262355388 |
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