Trespassing: Dirt Stories and Field Notes

by Janet Kauffman

Essays and stories that contemplate the exploitation of Michigan's agricultural landscape by modern factory farms.

Trespassing is composed in equal amounts of short fiction and essays that illustrate the impact of modern factory farms--confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs)--on a rural Michigan community. Michigan author Janet Kauffman debunks the myth of the idyllic "clip art" farm of decades past by giving readers a close-up...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814333745
• ISBN13: 9780814333747
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Combines essays and short fiction to discuss these farms

The classic free range farm that is so happily depicted in children's books is not how the majority of modern farming is done - it is instead done much like a factory, and there may be some ill effects from it, which "Trespassing Dirt Stories and Field Notes" looks to examine, combining essays and short fiction to discuss these farms, which while producing great amounts of meat and diary products, have other less obvious penalties to the environment. "Trespassing Dirt Stories and Field Notes" is highly recommended for anyone concerned about animal rights and a good pick for any community library environmental studies shelf.