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Farmageddon: The true cost of cheap meat / Lymbery, Philip; Oakeshott, Isabel 2014  Book
edLymbery, Philip Book
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Publication London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
Description xv, 426pGreen spine
Summary/Abstract 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 * Fresh fish are being hoovered from the oceans: fish that could feed local populations are being turned into fishmeal for farmed fish, chickens and pigs thousands of miles away * 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 * Epidemic waste underpins the mega-farming model: while food prices rocket, surplus food is thrown away 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.
Standard Number 9781408857076 Pb.
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Food and farming / Green, Jen 2013  Book
Green, Jen Book
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Publication London, Raintree Publishers, 2013.
Description 64pGreen Spine
Series The impact of environmentalism
Summary/Abstract Discusses the impact of environmentalism on agriculture and the food industry, including the fair trade movement, organic farming, and crop rotation.
Contents Thinking about food sourecs What is environmentalism? Modernization of farming The impact of farming The 'greening' of farming The food industry Feast and famine Looking into the future
Standard Number 9781406238594 Hb.
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Pachamama: our earth - our future: Our Earth our Future / Woolcombe, David 1999  Book
Woolcombe, David Book
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Publication Great Britain, Evans Brothers Ltd., 1999.
Description 96pBlack spine
Summary/Abstract Introduces young people to the environmental challenges that await us in the 21st century, and what action government and young people, are taking to address the problems we face.
Contents Atmosphere Freshwater Marine and Coastal Areas Land and Food Forests Biodiversity Urbanisation Polar regions Pull the Strings! ...and Action! If We Ruled the World Emerging Issues What Scientists Say What Others Think What You Can Do Eco Times How Green Are You?
Standard Number 0237521199 Pb.
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