TY  - BOOK
TI  - Global Meat: Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry
T2  - Food, Health, and the Environment
SN  - 9780262355384
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Environmental policy & protocols
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Pollution & threats to the environment
KW  - agribusiness
KW  - agricultural subsidies
KW  - animal rights
KW  - animal welfare
KW  - aquaculture
KW  - beef
KW  - CAFOs
KW  - chicken
KW  - China
KW  - climate change
KW  - consumption
KW  - corporations
KW  - deportation
KW  - dietary transition
KW  - Ecuador
KW  - emissions
KW  - environment
KW  - fish
KW  - fisheries
KW  - Globalization
KW  - immigration
KW  - industrial livestock
KW  - labor
KW  - livestock
KW  - meat industry
KW  - meat processing
KW  - nutrition
KW  - nutrition transition
KW  - pork
KW  - poultry
KW  - race
KW  - Rwanda
KW  - seafood
KW  - solutions
KW  - subsidies
KW  - sustainability
KW  - sustainable development
KW  - United States
KW  - USDA
KW  - vegetarianism
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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 contributors to Global Meat explore the implications of the rise of a global meat industry for a range of social and environmental issues, including climate change, clean water supplies, hunger, workers' rights, and the treatment of animals. Three themes emerge from their discussions: the role of government and corporations in shaping the structure of the global meat industry; the paradox of simultaneous rising meat production and greater food insecurity; and the industry's contribution to social and environmental injustice. Contributors address such specific topics as the dramatic increase in pork production and consumption in China; land management by small-scale cattle farmers in the Amazon; the effect on the climate of rising greenhouse gas emissions from cattle raised for meat; and the tensions between economic development and animal welfare. Contributors Conner Bailey, Robert M. Chiles, Celize Christy, Riva C. H. Denny, Carrie Freshour, Philip H. Howard, Elizabeth Ransom, Tom Rudel, Mindi Schneider, Nhuong Tran, Bill Winders
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78571
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11868.001.0001
ER  -