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Farmageddon: The True Cost Of Cheap Meat (2014)

by Philip Lymbery(Favorite Author)

4.19 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1408846446 (ISBN13: 9781408846445)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Bloomsbury USA

review 1: Holy cow. (Sorry, bad pun, couldn't resist.) This book is TERRIFYING. I watched Food, Inc and then wanted to explore the topic of agriculture and intensive farming further, so picked this up. Scared the crap out of me. This book is about a system which doesn't work and is destroying people, animals and ultimately, the planet. It's depleting fresh water supplies, destroying rainforests to create crop lands to grown animal feed, polluting the planet to such an extent that 'dead zones' are being created in the oceans where nothing can survive, not to mention giving people all kinds of health problems - and then of course, there are the miserable condition of the animals being bred and the meat and dairy products produced from those animals. None of it makes any real sense, bu... moret the agriculture industry players are pushing to create more and more of a broken system, while hiding what they're doing from consumers. Great. I was recently asked 'What are you going to do in 201 to make the world a better place?' I didn't know at the time, but now I know that in 2015 I'm going to make an effort to change my food consumption and purchasing habits. I'm going to look to buy locally grown produce, especially organic, grass fed meat and dairy products in place of cheap, grain fed, intensively reared supermarket meat. I'll be voting with my cash.
review 2: Amazing book that compiles everything one does not think about, or does not want to think about, when it comes to cheap meat, without preaching veganism or even vegetarianism.I'm fairly new to the whole topic and found this book highly readable, very informative and would recommend it to anyone else looking to know more about where their food comes from, and what it means to the environment and the planet's future. less

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