Tony Weis

The Ecological Hoofprint (eBook, PDF)

The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand.

Following his previous ground-breaking book The Global Food Economy, Tony Weis explains clearly why the growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical contradictions of industrial capitalist agriculture.

The Ecological Hoofprint provides a rigorous and eye-opening way of understanding what this system means for the health of the planet, how it contributes to worsening human inequality, and how it constitutes a profound but invisible aspect of the violence of everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780320984
• Artikelnr.: 39975154

Autorenporträt

Tony Weis is an associate professor of geography at the University of Western Ontario. His research is broadly located at the intersection of political ecology and agrarian political economy. He is the author of The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming (Zed Books, 2007), and numerous articles and book chapters on environmental and development issues surrounding agriculture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: meatification and why it matters
1. Contextualizing the hoofprint: global environmental change and
inequality
2. The uneven geography of meat
3. The industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex
4. Confronting the ecological hoofprint: towards a more sustainable, just,
and humane world