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Global Meat
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Global Meat

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-10-29
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

The growth of the global meat industry and the implications for climate change, food insecurity, workers' rights, the treatment of animals, and other issues. Global meat production and consumption have risen sharply and steadily over the past five decades, with per capita meat consumption almost doubling since 1960. The expanding global meat industry, meanwhile, driven by new trade policies and fueled by government subsidies, is dominated by just a few corporate giants. Industrial farming—the intensive production of animals and fish—has spread across the globe. Millions of acres of land are now used for pastures, feed crops, and animal waste reservoirs. Drawing on concrete examples, the ...

Taste, Trade and Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Taste, Trade and Technology

Focusing on the interactions of producers, sellers and consumers of meat across the world, from the nineteenth century onwards, Richard Perren provides a comprehensive analysis of how an efficient meat exporting industry was built. The study utilises the government reports and papers issued by all countries involved in the meat trade, including North and South America, Australia, New Zealand and Britain.

Beef Cattle Production and Trade
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 583

Beef Cattle Production and Trade

Covers all aspects of the beef industry from paddock to plate.

The Meat Trade in Britain, 1840-1914
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

The Meat Trade in Britain, 1840-1914

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Information Sources on the Meat-processing Industry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 106
Unfair Trade Practices in the Meat Industry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 532

Unfair Trade Practices in the Meat Industry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1957
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Considers legislation to amend antitrust laws by vesting in FTC jurisdiction to prevent monopolistic practices in meat industry.

Farmageddon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 598

Farmageddon

The quiet revolution of mega-farming that is threatening our countryside, farms and food. 'This eye-opening book . . . deserves global recognition' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 'Devastating . . . demands reading and deserves the widest possible audience' Joanna Lumley 'He is informed enough to be appalled, and moderate enough to persuade us to take responsibility for the system that feeds us' Guardian: Book of the Week 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. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside,...

The Meat Business
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

The Meat Business

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Earthscan

The theme running through this collection of essays is that food quality and human health, the welfare of animals and the methods of farming, and the quality of the environment, go hand-in-hand. This theme continues along the lines that the present system is harmful to them all and to our ability to generate enough good food for the whole world. The contributors to the volume offer alternatives - for more humane and moderate methods of farming which produce enough nourishing food without damaging the environment it depends on.

Unfair Trade Practices in the Meat Industry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 528

Unfair Trade Practices in the Meat Industry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1957
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Considers legislation to amend antitrust laws by vesting in FTC jurisdiction to prevent monopolistic practices in meat industry.

Towards a sustainable, participatory and inclusive wild meat sector
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Towards a sustainable, participatory and inclusive wild meat sector

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-01-30
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  • Publisher: CIFOR

The meat of wild species, referred to in this report as ‘wild meat’, is an essential source of protein and a generator of income for millions of forest-living communities in tropical and subtropical regions. However, unsustainable harvest rates currently