Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

Synopsis: Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of fo od has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is ente ring the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal de monstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threa tens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live i n the world. * Our health is under threat: half of all antibiotics used worldwide (risin g to 80 per cent in US) are routinely given to industrially farmed animals, contributing to the emergence of deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs * Wildlife is being systematically destroyed: bees are now trucked across t he States (and even airfreighted from Australia) to pollinate the fruit tre es in the vast orchards of California, where a chemical assault has decimat ed the wild insect population * Cereals that could feed billions of people are being given to animals: so ya and grain that could nourish the world's poorest, are now grown increasi ngly as animal fodder Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world - from the UK, Europe and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. It is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future.

Product Info

ISBN: 1408846446

ISBN-13: 9781408846445

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Year: 2014

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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