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Farmageddon : the true cost of cheap meat / Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott.

by Lymbery, Philip.

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Bloomsbury, 2014.

338.47664 L986f

Meat industry and trade.

Meat -- Quality.

Food supply -- Environmental aspects.

Food -- Quality.

Animal culture -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Animal biotechnology.

9781408846445 (pbk)

1408846446 (pbk)

xv, 426 pages ; 24 cm.

"An investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating -- as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world. Half of all antibiotics used worldwide are given to industrially farmed animals, contributing to the emergence of deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Wildlife is being systematically destroyed: bees are now trucked across the country to pollinate crops where the local wild honeybee population has become nearly extinct. Cereals that could feed billions of people are being given to animals: soya and grain that could nourish the world's poorest, are now grown increasingly as animal fodder. A fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry. A wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices.

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