Description
| Product ID: | 9781780320960 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Ecological Hoofprint |
| Subtitle: | The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock |
| Authors: | Author: Tony Weis |
| Page Count: | 200 |
| Subjects: | Development studies, Development studies, Social impact of environmental issues, Animal husbandry, Social impact of environmental issues, Animal husbandry |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book explains how the phenomenal growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical contradictions of industrial capitalist agriculture and of ongoing and future food crises. The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand.Following his previous ground-breaking book The Global Food Economy, Tony Weis explains clearly why the growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical contradictions of industrial capitalist agriculture.The Ecological Hoofprint provides a rigorous and eye-opening way of understanding what this system means for the health of the planet, how it contributes to worsening human inequality, and how it constitutes a profound but invisible aspect of the violence of everyday life. |
| Imprint Name: | Zed Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-11-14 |
