Animals as food : (re)connecting production, processing, consumption, and impacts /

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"Every day, millions of people around the world sit down to a meal that includes meat. This book explores several questions as it examines the use of animals as food: How did the domestication and production of livestock animals emerge and why? How did current modes of raising and slaughtering...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fitzgerald, Amy J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2015]
Series:Animal turn.
Subjects:
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses > Social aspects > United States.
Meat industry and trade > Social aspects > United States.
Animal welfare.
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human-animal relationships.
Livestock > North America.
Animaux > Protection > Aspect moral.
Relations homme-animal.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General.
Animal welfare
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects
Human-animal relationships
Livestock
North America
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prehistory through the colonization of North America
  • The industrialization of livestock production
  • The industrialization of slaughter and processing
  • Consuming animals as food
  • Industrialization fallout
  • Bridging the divide between production, processing, consumption, and impacts.

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