Pigs, profits, and rural communities
By: Kendall M. Thu and E. Paul Durrenberger, editors.
Contributors: Thu, Kendall M., 1960-; Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943-
Series: SUNY series in anthropological studies of contemporary issues
Publisher: State University of New Your Press; SUNY Press; State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Swine -- United States.; Pork industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- United States.; United States -- Rural conditions.
Description: This book illuminates the processes and consequences of agricultural industrialization, particularly within the swine production industry, for the social, economic, human, environmental, and political health of the rural United States. Contributors come from widely divergent backgrounds including a former U.S. senator, farmers, a veterinarian, a medical psychologist, an agricultural economist, a biological ecologist, a farm organization president, and anthropologists. Set within the theoretical framework of Walter Goldschmidt's research on the community consequences of industrialized food production, these contributions show that the increasing divergence of ownership has real human costs that continue to be ignored by economic developers and policymakers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.