For the Fearless Reader: The CAFO Reader is Here
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010, 11:00 AM
Everything you ever wanted to know about animal factory farms but were afraid to ask, The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories is here.
The dozens of contributors read like a who’s who of the sustainable food movement, among them ranchers, journalists, public health advocates, and more. Among them:
Wendell Berry ways in on “Renewing Husbandry: The Mechanization of Agriculture is Fast Coming to an End”
Robert F. Kennedy pens a chapter called “Farms to Factories: Pillaging the Commons”
Grist’s Tom Philpott writes “Squeezed to the Last Drop: The Loss of Family Farms”
And I contributed a chapter on the link between livestock and the climate crisis.
But it’s not all doom-and-gloom, contributors were also asked to share a vision for the future and in “Putting the CAFO Out to Pasture” you learn about how we might work toward a humane, equitable, and sustainable food system. Imagine that.
A coffee-table book format volume, including full-color photos of The CAFO Reader will be out this fall. (Just don’t serve feedlot burgers to your guests while you’ve got this one lying around).
June 15th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
No matter what anybody or any country and I don’t care WHO they are or THINK they are, CAFO is wrong and inhumane. Factory Farming and the entire short-cut farming is mean, cruel, UNGODLY despicable and tells people you are just a fat-gutted money-hungry slimeball. Animals were not made to be treated this way. God instructs humans to respect and be kind to the animals. God, I hope all these animal abusers find out Heaven is real when they get to Hell.