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Silbergeld, Ellen K.
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Food -- United States -- Safety measures.
Food supply -- United States -- Safety measures.
Food -- Safety measures.
Animal culture -- United States -- Safety measures.
Antibiotics in animal nutrition.
Antibiotics in agriculture.
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
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Silbergeld, Ellen K.
Food -- United States -- Safety measures.
Food supply -- United States -- Safety measures.
Food -- Safety measures.
Animal culture -- United States -- Safety measures.
Antibiotics in animal nutrition.
Antibiotics in agriculture.
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
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Chickenizing farms & food : how industrial meat production endangers workers, animals, and consumers /
Ellen
K
.
Silbergeld
.
by
Silbergeld
,
Ellen
K
.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Call #:
363.1926 S582c
Subjects
Food -- United States -- Safety measures.
Food supply -- United States -- Safety measures.
Food -- Safety measures.
Animal culture -- United States -- Safety measures.
Antibiotics in animal nutrition.
Antibiotics in agriculture.
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
ISBN:
9781421420301 (hc.)
Description:
xvi, 315 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Can we talk about agriculture? -- Confinement, concentration, and integration : what is industrial agriculture? -- It all started in Delmarva -- The "chickenization" of the world -- The coming of the drugs -- When you look at a screen, do you see lattices or holes? -- Antimicrobial resistance : how agriculture ended the antimicrobial era -- Collateral damage : taking and putting -- Have a cup of coffee and pray -- Food safety : redesigning products or consumers? -- Can we feed the world? -- A path forward, not backward.
Summary:
"Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the globe, often at the expense of human health.
Ellen
K
.
Silbergeld
reveals the unsafe world of chickenization - big agriculture's top-down, contract-based factory farming system - and its negative consequences for workers, consumers, and the environment.
Silbergeld
examines the complex history of the modern industrial food animal production industry and describes the widespread effects of Arthur Perdue's remarkable agricultural innovations, which were so important that the US Department of Agriculture uses the term chickenization to cover the transformation of all farm animal production.
Silbergeld
tells the real story of how antibiotics were first introduced into animal feeds in the 1940s, which has led to the emergence of multi-drug-resistant pathogens, such as MRSA. Along the way, she talks with poultry growers, farmers, and slaughterhouse workers on the front lines of exposure, moving from the Chesapeake Bay peninsula that gave birth to the modern livestock and poultry industry to North Carolina, Brazil, and China. Arguing that the agricultural industry is in desperate need of reform, the book searches through the fog of illusion that obscures most of what has happened to agriculture in the twentieth century and untangles the history of how laws, regulations, and policies have stripped government agencies of the power to protect workers and consumers alike from occupational and food-borne hazards. The author explores some alternatives to industrial farming, including organic production, nonmeat diets, locavorism, and small-scale agriculture. How can we ensure a safe and accessible food system that can feed everyone, including consumers in developing countries with new tastes for western diets, without hurting workers, sickening consumers, and undermining some of our most powerful medicines?"--Publisher.
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