The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply

by Ken Midkiff

Book Overview

"We have given up to the agribusiness corporations a crucial part of our responsibility as human beings and we must now think of ways to take it back."- Wendell Berry, from the Foreword In this eye-opening book, Sierra Club Director Ken Midkiff exposes the dangers posed by corporate control of agriculture (agribusiness)--to our health, and to the health of the nation's economy, security, and the environment. "The Meat You Eat" explores the current...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312325355
• ISBN13: 9780312325350
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Good

This book is a good look into the way our meat is raised in america today. It will get you thinking about a lot of things. I work in the food industry and the meat i cook comes from them. I buy my meat as much as i can from local farms for 2 reasons. 1 i like supporting local farms and 2 it is much better for you.

Same, same, but different..

If you read "Fast Food Nation", you will like this book. There are similarities, but also many differences. The book refers to fish farm and gets into the economics of agricultural business. A great read.

The Meat You Eat by Ken Midkiff

In The Meat You Eat, Ken Midriff provides an in-depth analysis of the process of creating many animal products. Midkiff uses proven facts and precise statistics to back up his overall argument against corporate farming. Midkiff also uses many of his own detailed experiences and interviews from ordinary people. Their testimonies add validity to The Meat You Eat. Midkiff shows how corporate farming is a danger to the environment, the economy, and the environment in a step by step structure that is easy to follow. He shows the reader that corporate farming has turned farming into a dirty big business concerned only with profit. Midkiff says that the owners of factory farms don't care about how the negative affects to the environment, workers, animals, workers, and the American consumer. Rather than promoting vegetarianism, he advocates buying organic animal products or buying them from a small local farm. Midkiff says buying from local farmers will hurt factory farms and benefit the environment, animals, and the local farmers themselves.

Problems and solutions to agribusiness as a whole

As large meat factories and corporate processing operations take over America, so grows the need for a logical assessment of such methods, here provided by Ken Midkiff's The Meat You Eat. Midkiff is a Sierra Club Clean Water Campaign director and an expert on agribusiness and sustainable farming applications: The Meat You Eat takes a predictably hard look at the methods used by corporations to run profitable gigantic farms, applying their problems and solutions to agribusiness as a whole in an analysis of food safety.