ISBN:
9781611861747
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9781609174620 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
207 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781609174620
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
The Animal Turn
DDC:
304.27
Keywords:
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
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 animals for human consumption develop, and what are their consequences? What can be done to mitigate and even reverse the impacts of animal production? With insight into the historical, cultural, political, legal, and economic processes that shape our use of animals as food, Fitzgerald provides a holisti...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.:
