The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780300088809
Subjects: Animal husbandry; Endangered species & extinction of species; Farm & working animals; Reference works; Livestock Management; Poultry Science; Technology; Nature; Science/Mathematics; Animals; Environmental Conservation & Protection - Endangered Species; Reference; Nature / Reference; Agriculture - General; Canada; Encyclopedias; Livestock breeds; Rare breeds; United States
First sentence: Change has come so completely and so pervasively to agriculture in the past half-century that it is now hard to imagine the relationship between humans and their animals as it existed in the first half of the twentieth century and for thousands of years past.
Description: "The need to preserve farm animal diversity is increasingly urgent, says the author of this definitive book on endangered breeds of livestock and poultry. Farmyard animals may hold critical keys for our survival, Jan Dohner warns, and with each extinction, genetic traits of potentially vital importance to our agricultural future or to medical progress are forever lost."--BOOK JACKET.