CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation)
Subtitle: the tragedy of industrial animal factories
By: Daniel Imhoff, editor
Publisher: Earth Aware
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Rafael, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781601090584
Subjects: Factory farms; Pictorial works
Other titles: Concentrated animal feeding operation; Tragedy of industrial animal factories
Description: CAFO : The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories provides an unprecedented view of concentrated animal feeding operations, where increasing amounts of the world's meat, milk, eggs, and seafood are produced. As the photos and essays in this powerful book demonstrate, the rise of the CAFO industry around the world has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. Industrial livestock production is now a leading source of climate-changing emissions, a source of both freshwater and ocean pollution, and a significant contributor to diet-related diseases such as obesity and the spread of food-borne illnesses. The intensive concentration of animals in such crammed and filthy conditions dependent on antibiotic medicines and steady streams of subsidized industrial feeds poses serious moral and ethical concerns for all of us.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.