The ecological hoofprint : the global burden of industrial livestock /
The Ecological Hoofprint is a rigorous and eye-opening explanation of how industrial livestock production is driving the exploding global consumption of meat, which is implicated in momentous but greatly under-appreciated problems. Tony Weis, author of the ground-breaking The Global Food Economy, sh...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, England :
Zed Books,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The Ecological Hoofprint is a rigorous and eye-opening explanation of how industrial livestock production is driving the exploding global consumption of meat, which is implicated in momentous but greatly under-appreciated problems. Tony Weis, author of the ground-breaking The Global Food Economy, shows what this 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. Also published in printing. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350223080 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350223080 |
| Access: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers. |