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Farmageddon

Philip Lymbery

  • Bindwijze: Paperback
  • Taal: en
  • ISBN: 9781408846445
The True Cost of Cheap Meat
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:30 januari 2014
Aantal pagina's:448
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Philip Lymbery
Tweede Auteur:Philip Lymbery
Hoofduitgeverij:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Hoofduitgeverij:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Overige kenmerken
Editie:1
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:156 mm
Product hoogte:36 mm
Product lengte:236 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:153 mm
Verpakking hoogte:43 mm
Verpakking lengte:234 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:662 g
Overige kenmerken
Editie:1
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:156 mm
Product hoogte:36 mm
Product lengte:236 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:153 mm
Verpakking hoogte:43 mm
Verpakking lengte:234 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:662 g

Samenvatting

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. * Our health is under threat: half of all antibiotics used worldwide (rising to 80 per cent in US) are routinely 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 States (and even airfreighted from Australia) to pollinate the fruit trees in the vast orchards of California, where a chemical assault has decimated the wild insect population * 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 Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world - from the UK, Europe and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. It is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future.