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1) The jungle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.
Author
Publisher
Murdoch Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
How can 160,000 deaths in one day constitute a 'medium-sized operation'?
Think beef is killing the world? What about asparagus farms? Or golf?
Going vegan might be all the rage, but the fact is the world has an ever-growing, insatiable appetite for meat - especially cheap meat. Former food critic and chef, now farmer and restaurateur Matthew Evans grapples with the thorny issues around the ways we produce and consume animals. From feedlots and abattoirs,...
Author
Series
Agricultural marketing report volume AMR 10-02
Publisher
Colorado State University, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Author
Series
Agricultural marketing report volume AMR 10-03
Publisher
Colorado State University, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
One of the great science and health revelations of our time is the danger posed by meat-eating. Every day, it seems, we are warned about the harm producing and consuming meat can do to the environment and our bodies. Many of us have tried to limit how much meat we consume, and many of us have tried to give it up altogether. But it is not easy to resist the smoky, cured, barbequed, and fried delights that tempt us. What makes us crave animal protein,...
12) Factory farming
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Contains essays that offer a variety of perspectives on the issue of factory farming, debating whether factory farming is economically beneficial, ethical, or harmful to human health or the environment, and considering the future of the industry.
Author
Series
Agricultural and resource policy report volume APR 00-07
Publisher
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
19) At the fork
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Takes a look at how farm animals are raised for our consumption and how America's farmers are grappling with the moral dilemma of raising animals for food.