 | The Meat Business: Devouring a Hungry Planet Subjects: Environment & Agriculture; Global Development; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Environment and Sustainability; Food Science & Technology; Geography; Health and Social Care; Politics & International Relations; Plant & Animal Ecology; Sustainable Development; Environmental Policy; Environmental Politics; Environmental Issues; Environment & Philosophy; Environment & Resources; Environment & Economics; Environment & Health; Food Laws & Regulations; Public Health Policy and Practice; Regulatory Policy; Agriculture & Environmental Sciences; Industry & Industrial Studies; Food Chemistry; Human Geography; Agriculture; Agriculture and Food; Nutrition; Environmental Geography; Primary Industries; Originally published in 1999. The theme running through this collection of essays is that food quality and human health, the welfare of animals and the methods of farming, and the quality of the environment, go hand-in-hand. This theme continues along the lines that the present system is harmful to them all and to our ability to generate enough good food for the whole world. The contributors to the volume offer alternatives - for more humane and moderate methods of farming which produce enough nourishing food without damaging the environment it depends on. |
