U.S. Organic Dairy Politics [electronic resource] : Animals, Pasture, People, and Agribusiness /
Scholten, B.author.
Based on a decade of study, this book provides a scholarly overview of organic dairy politics, showing how politics, policy, and protest both inside and outside of agriculture can determine a future of pastoral landscapes resembling an earlier time in the western world or, alternatively, one made of dystopian ruralities.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Photos and Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Memoir: Bleak Winter to Spring Break; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Glossary; 1 Introduction: What Is Organic Dairying?; Background; Chapters; Chapter 1: Introduction: What Is Organic Dairying?; Chapter 2: Agricultural Revolutions: Winter Was Bleak before Haymaking; Chapter 3: USDA Organic Pasture War: Where Have All the Cow Herds Gone?; Chapter 4: Animal Welfare: From Rudolf Steiner to the St. Paul Declaration
Chapter 5: Stewardship in the Northwest: Dutch Stewards, Vets, and Researchers Discuss U.S., Canadian, and European RulesChapter 6: Antibiotics and Health in the Northeast and Beyond: Experts On U.S., Canadian, and European Rules; Chapter 7: Family Farms and Megadairies: Effects on Cows, Land, and Society; Organic and GMO Politics; GMOs in the Obama Era; A Dearth of GMO Health Checks; Dairy GMOs and Organics; Rural Livelihoods in the United States; Twenty-First Century Organics; CROPP Organic Cooperative; Transatlantic Comparisons; Black, White, and Grey
2 Agricultural Revolutions: Winter Was Bleak before HaymakingAgricultural Revolutions; Biodynamics and Organics; Alar Prompts Organic Politics; Conventionalization of Organics; Mining the Earth; Organic Snapshot; Geographic Shifts; Cow Longevity Conference 2013; UK-U.S. Studies; Conclusion; A Note on Food Regimes; 3 USDA Organic Pasture War: Where Have All the Cow Herds Gone?; CAFOs; McDonaldization; Upscaling; Rise of Cornucopia and Organic Consumers Association; Smouldering Pasture War; Organic Milk Boycott and Pasture Politics; Seattle Joins the Pasture War
Background: Awaiting the Pasture RulingScale and Pasturing; Boycott Maneuvers; Outlook on Grazing and Future Welfare Issues; Grazing and CAFOs; MIRG Weakens Need for CAFOs; The Battle Turns; Final Pasture Rule 2010; Cornucopia's Dairy Scorecard; Organic Timeline (Scholten 2006-14); 4 Animal Welfare: From Rudolf Steiner to the St. Paul Declaration; Confinement and Disease; Arguments; Conventional Lives Worth Living; Welfare Definitions; Antibiotics Dwindle; Singer's Animal Liberation; California or Bust: Westward Upscaling; Dutch Barn; Steiner, Biodynamics, and Organics
Steiner, Balfour, and Howard in BritainPfeiffer and Rodale in the United States; IFOAM; IFOAM's International Conference 2006; St. Paul Declaration 2006; 5 Stewardship in the Northwest: Dutch Stewards, Vets, and Researchers Discuss U.S., Canadian, and European Rules; LeCompte-Mastenbrook on Dutch Stewardship; 6 Antibiotics and Health in the Northeast and Beyond: Experts on U.S., Canadian, and European Rules; IFOAM on Antibiotics; Hue Karreman on Antibiotics; Conclusion; 7 Family Farms and Megadairies: Effects on Cows, Land, and Society; U.S. Organic Dairy Politics Survey in 2013
Survey Construction and Methods
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a decade of study, this book provides a scholarly overview of organic dairy politics, showing how politics, policy, and protest both inside and outside of agriculture can determine a future of pastoral landscapes resembling an earlier time in the western world or, alternatively, one made of dystopian ruralities.
Nature conservation.
Europe-Politics and government.
Environmental sciences-Philosophy.
Public administration.
Agriculture.
Political science.
Nature Conservation.
European Politics.
Environmental Philosophy.
Public Administration.
Agriculture.
Political Science.