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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Main Author: Weis, Anthony John, 1973- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, England : Zed Books, 2013.
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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.
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.