What’s the best way to reduce how much water you use? You may be surprised to learn that it doesn’t involve your lawn or a household faucet.
Tags: · beef, chicken, industrial meat, meat consumption, pork, Water Conservation
CAFO pulls back the curtain on industrial agriculture.
CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories (Earth Aware, 2010) takes no shortcuts as it squires us on an uncomfortable walk through the ways of modern meat production. It’s a grimy, grisly world and while much is immediately apparent, it’s important to stay for the entire tour so you can appreciate all the connections, redundancies and stupidity in the system.
This isn’t easy. There are pictures — and text — that are pure horror show; glimpses of the slaughterhouse where you can almost smell the stench. But stay on the walk, so you’ll understand. That’s important, because in the end, this is not about a more efficient system that’s brutal but necessary to feed the world, but about a super-controlled corporate game that’s out of control.
Tags: · animal slaughter, beef, CAFOs, cattle, chicken, Daniel Imhoff, Fish, industrial meat, pigs, pork, poultry, protein, slaughterhouses
Barbara Kessler
Andrew Winston
Danielle Nierenberg
Anthony Swift