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Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat Paperback – May 6, 2014

by Philip Lymbery (Author)

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Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating – as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.

* Our health is under threat: half of all antibiotics used worldwide (rising to 80 per cent in US) are routinely given to industrially farmed animals, contributing to the emergence of deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs

* Wildlife is being systematically destroyed: bees are now trucked across the States (and even airfreighted from Australia) to pollinate the fruit trees in the vast orchards of California, where a chemical assault has decimated the wild insect population

* Cereals that could feed billions of people are being given to animals: soya and grain that could nourish the world's poorest, are now grown increasingly as animal fodder

Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world – from the UK, Europe and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. It is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future.

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Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal welfare organization, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on the effects of industrial farming.

Isabel Oakeshott is a political journalist and commentator. Currently Political Editor At Large at the Daily Mail, she is a former Political Editor of the Sunday Times and co-author of the unauthorised biography of UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Call Me Dave.

Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (May 6, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1408846446
ISBN-13: 978-1408846445
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 23 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #755,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #162 in Books > Science & Math > Agricultural Sciences > History
- #462 in Books > Business & Money > Economics > Microeconomics
- #1380 in Books > Science & Math > Agricultural Sciences > Food Science

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John Moran

A review of Farmageddon by an animal welfare sspecialist

January 29, 2015

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This is a very informative and readable book and provides an excellent insight into modern day intensive livestock production systems. It certainly provides much “food for thought” on how mankind has “gone off the rails” in their quest to develop systems to more economically feed the world on animal protein at the expense of animal well being. Unfortunately the text contains many emotive descriptions of modern day livestock production systems and this detracts from the book’s readability and “take home messages”.

The changes in the intensive farming of poultry (for meat as well as eggs) and of pigs (particularly pregnant and lactating sows) has led to drastic reductions in their welfare and that would not be disputed by any compassionate livestock producer. One could also agree with the authors regarding the reduced welfare of intensively, but poorly managed, lot fed beef cattle and dairy cows. However the management of milking cows can be such that their welfare is hardly compromised. Granted beef and dairy cattle, being ruminants have been traditionally provided with access to pastures thus adequate space to move around in and to harvest their own forages. When managed off pasture, rarely are lot fed beef cattle provided with facilities to lie down undisturbed. However, dairy cattle, both milking cows and young stock, can each be provided with a separate resting place with clean, soft bedding such that they can lie down for as long as they would when provided with free access to pasture. This will allow for the provision of all they require for their comfort and welfare. The provision of additional overnight space in the form of an outside sand or dirt yard will also allow them to display when they are on heat, this allowing them to be successfully inseminated as the now normal management of dairy cows, rather than be serviced by a bull.

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E. Nering

Learn Where Your Food Comes From

July 23, 2015

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This book does a wonderful job of describing farming methods over the entire globe as well as global methods of raising food for human consumption. This includes cattle, chickens and pigs. It is sure to make a vegetarian out of you. The statistics and brutality is incmprehensible and sobering. Definitely a must read.

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Paul Shapiro

Very worhwhile read

April 3, 2014

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Philip Lymbery is an expert on our food system, especially how that system is broken and in desperate need of repair. As someone who spends a lot of time myself studying how we produce food, I learned a lot from Lymbery's book and found it very worthwhile. It's an important contribution to the literature and should be required reading for anyone interested in reforming our agricultural systems. Critically, Lymbery takes aim at the environmental devastation wrought by animal agribusiness, recommending both ways to reduce the harm this industry causes as well as ways we can all simply eat fewer animals, and of course more plants. Farmageddon is a sobering, yet hopeful book, and I highly recommend it.

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Steffen

Incredibly relatable human stories of what our demand for cheap ...

January 16, 2016

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Incredibly relatable human stories of what our demand for cheap food is doing to the planet. Bought one for myself and then another as a gift!

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Dottie M. Coppock

Great Read

July 20, 2015

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A Wonderful, informative, interesting book.

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Lauren L

A shocking and riveting expose

January 8, 2017

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Jaw-dropping in its revelations about how human food production and global agribusiness has developed over the last century. Vast in scope to the point of numbing, however, despite the highly engaging, almost travelogue style. And so shocking and disturbing that I really would have liked more of a focus on the solutions - one chapter at the end, emphasizing consumer activism and government regulation left me feeling somewhat impotent and demoralized. Nevertheless an utterly compulsive and should be compulsory read.

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Waste is a big problem in the USA (and elsewhere)

October 5, 2016

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Everyone should read this book...maybe people would be less wasteful if they did! Waste is a big problem in the USA (and elsewhere). Portion sizes are way to big in the USA, it is no wonder we have so many hugely obese people! Food and its production needs to be respected more, especially the animals that die so we can eat meat.... do not get me wrong I am not a vegetarian, but I respect the fact that an animal died... so I never waste meat, people who do, disrespect life and the fact that an animal died in order that they could have meat on their plate.... We all need to eat less... and care more! We and the planet would be a healthier place if that philosophy were to be implemented!

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giovanni

excellent!!!!

April 2, 2014

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excellent. outlines alla the cruelty connected to animal rearing, and gives us invaluable advices on how to eat safely, either improving animal wellness and safegueìarding our health. Because the meat from animals reared in intensive farming not only produces suffering in animals but also jeopardizes our health, making us eating antibiotics, hormones and other chemicals with the meat. Also fish from intensive rearing is unhealthy. I strongly reccomend this book to all the responsible consumers. I commend Philip Lymbery as a very great man. I already donated some money to his organization, compasssion in world farming.

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