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CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation):
The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories provides
an unprecedented view of concentrated animal
feeding operations—aka CAFOs—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 foodborne
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.
Featuring more than 400 photographs and thirty
essays by today’s leading thinkers on food and
agriculture, including Wendell Berry, Wenonah
Hauter, Fred Kirschenmann, Anna Lappé,
Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, and Matthew
Scully, CAFO takes readers on a behind-thescenes
journey into the dismal world of animal
factory farming. It also offers a compelling vision
for a healthier food system: one that is humane,
sound for farmers and communities, and safer
for consumers and the environment. The book’s
ultimate message is clear: We can and certainly
must do better.
Along with its companion volume, The CAFO
Reader, CAFO is designed to be an invaluable
educational resource in the battle to reform the
tragic state of animal factory farming. It will
also inform and influence the growing public
movement of activists, farmers, policy makers,
medical professionals, and consumers who are
working to make our food healthier for ourselves,
for domesticated animals, and the planet.
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CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
Hardcover; 400 pages; 450 full color photographs and 30 essays. $50
The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
Paperback; 462 pages; 34 essays. $21.95
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