Ecological Hoofprint

The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock

AvTony Weis

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Engelska, 2013

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-11-14
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781780320991
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Tony Weis is an associate professor of geography at the University of Western Ontario. His research is broadly located at the intersection of political ecology and agrarian political economy. He is the author of The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming (Zed Books, 2007), and numerous articles and book chapters on environmental and development issues surrounding agriculture.

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Weis delivers a penetrating and systematic structural analysis of the global industrial feeds-livestock complex that reveals the extent to which Earth's resources are subsumed to the logic of cheap meat production. Insightful, accessible, compelling, this is a must read for scholars and students of the food system.

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Introduction: meatification and why it matters1. Contextualizing the hoofprint: global environmental change and inequality2. The uneven geography of meat3. The industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex4. Confronting the ecological hoofprint: towards a more sustainable, just, and humane world