Defending beef
Subtitle: the case for sustainable meat production
By: Nicolette Hahn Niman
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781603585361
Subjects: Beef cattle; Ranching; Diet
Description: Nicolette Hahn Niman dispels popular myths about how eating beef is bad for our bodies and planet. Grounded in empirical scientific data and with living examples from around the world, Hahn Niman builds a comprehensive argument that cattle can help build carbon-sequestering soils to mitigate climate change, enhance biodiversity, prevent desertification, and provide invaluable nutrition. While no single book can definitively answer the thorny question of how to feed the earth's growing population, Defending Beef makes the case that, whatever the world's future food system looks like, cattle and beef can and must be part of the solution.--COVER.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cattle : Environment and culture; title: The climate change case against cattle : Sorting fact from fiction; title: All food is grass; title: Water; title: Biodiversity; title: Overgrazing; title: People; title: Beef : Food and health; title: Health claims against beef : The rest of the story; title: Beef is good food; title: Critique and final analysis; title: A critique : What's the matter with beef?; title: Final analysis : Why eat animals?