Chickenizing Farms And Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, And Consumers Download Free (EPUB, PDF)

                
              
Chickenizing Farms And Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, And Consumers Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the globe, often at the expense of human health. In Chickenizing Farms and Food, Ellen K. Silbergeld reveals the unsafe world of chickenization―big agriculture’s top-down, contract-based factory farming system―and its negative consequences for workers, consumers, and the environment. Drawing on her deep knowledge of and experience in environmental engineering and toxicology, Silbergeld examines the complex history of the modern industrial food animal production industry and describes the widespread effects of Arthur Perdue’s remarkable agricultural innovations, which were so important that the US Department of Agriculture uses the term chickenization to cover the transformation of all farm animal production. Silbergeld tells the real story of how antibiotics were first introduced into animal feeds in the 1940s, which has led to the emergence of multi-drug-resistant pathogens, such as MRSA. Along the way, she talks with poultry growers, farmers, and slaughterhouse workers on the front lines of exposure, moving from the Chesapeake Bay peninsula that gave birth to the modern livestock and poultry industry to North Carolina, Brazil, and China.Arguing that the agricultural industry is in desperate need of reform, the book searches through the fog of illusion that obscures most of what has happened to agriculture in the twentieth century and untangles the history of how laws, regulations, and policies have stripped government agencies of the power to protect workers and consumers alike from occupational and food-borne hazards. Chickenizing Farms and Food also explores the limits of some popular alternatives to industrial farming, including organic production, nonmeat diets, locavorism, and small-scale agriculture. Silbergeld’s provocative but pragmatic call to action is tempered by real challenges: how can we ensure a safe and accessible food system that can feed everyone, including consumers in developing countries with new tastes for western diets, without hurting workers, sickening consumers, and undermining some of our most powerful medicines?
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (August 19, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421420309
ISBN-13: 978-1421420301
Product Dimensions:  6 x 1 x 9 inches
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Silbergeld is looking at how we need to make changes in agriculture that allow for healthier livestock and healthier ecosystems, and thus, healthier people; while still making production cost effective enough to feed even those who can’t afford “boutique” food (CSAs, etc.). I have read extensively on this topic and my major was in animal science; I have not encountered anyone presenting this topic with such knowledge and depth before. I feel Silbergeld deserves 5 stars (though her editor does not). Silbergeld’s overall style is enjoyable and not dry, but she can make sentences overly complex and wordy.Basic overview:CH 1 – Perceptions of agriculture and how the agricultural industry manages these perceptions. The “one health” concept of public health practitioners and veterinarians which looks at the interconnections between animal health and human health.CH 2 – History of industrial agriculture.CH 3 – More on the history of recent agriculture, mainly looking at broiler chickens (where it started). This is the chickenization referred to in the title.CH 4 – How the chickenization process was applied to other livestock and crops used to feed livestock, across the world. Subheading in this chapter are Different Paths To Chickenization; The Power Of Research: Brazil; Thailand: The Multinational Corporation’s Role In Industrial Food Animal Production; China: Import The Industry And Then Buy Back The Originals; India: Trade Restriction, Resistance To Social Change, And Poverty; Summary.CH 5 – Use of antimicrobial drugs in livestock. Subheadings in this chapter are: Origins: The Tale of Dr. Lucy Wills; March Of The Antimicrobials; What’s The Evidence That GPAs Work?; Two Wrongs; Resistance.CH 6 – Use of confinement in industrial agriculture.
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