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Farmageddon in Pictures: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

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Farmageddon in Pictures: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

SKU: 9781408873465 Category: Product ID: 31522

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Title: Farmageddon in Pictures: The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Author: LYMBERY PHILIP
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 22/02/2017
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active

Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating – as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.. .* Our health is under threat: half of all antibiotics used worldwide (rising 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 the States (and even airfreighted from Australia) to pollinate the fruit trees in the vast orchards of California, where a chemical assault has decimated the wild insect population. .* Cereals that could feed billions of people are being given to animals: soya and grain that could nourish the world’s poorest, are now grown increasingly 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.

ISBN: 9781408873465
Dimension: 230mm X 189mm
Pages: 192

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Dimensions 230 × 189 mm