Animals as Food: (Re)Connecting Production, Processing, Consumption, and Impacts

by Amy J. Fitzgerald

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611861748
• ISBN13: 9781611861747
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 10.1"