Dismantling Big Livestock

A Roadmap for Defunding Factory Farming
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-81944-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

This book offers the first in-depth exploration of the finance behind Big Livestock — the mega-corporations that dominate the supply of meat and dairy — exposing its role as the food system’s biggest climate offender and the urgent need to dismantle this industry for a sustainable future.

Over recent decades, corporate consolidation has concentrated the animal protein market in a few hands, driving the livestock industry to become a leading contributor to climate change. The book argues that scaling back Big Livestock is critical—and that withdrawing finance can spark this transformation. Through a detailed analysis of the funding behind major meat and dairy companies, Dismantling Big Livestock uncovers the lending and shareholding patterns that sustain Big Livestock. It draws parallels with the fossil fuel industry, examining the successes and failures of the divestment movement to reveal strategies for pressuring financial institutions, targeting key players, and setting impactful climate goals. It then goes further, working through the ten largest livestock emitters one by one to establish which banks lend to each company, which investors hold its shares and bonds, and where the leverage actually lies—finding that for most, it is lending rather than divestment that offers the way in. The book also envisions a sustainable transition for the livestock industry, exploring alternative systems to meet global protein needs and redirect funding towards greener solutions.

Essential reading for anyone interested in sustainable agriculture and food systems, this book provides a compelling roadmap for defunding Big Livestock and building a more climate-conscious future.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Narain, Divya

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Landwirtschaftsrecht, Forst-, Jagd- und Fischereirecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Biggest Climate Polluters You've Never Heard Of — and the Money Behind Them 2. Why Big Livestock Must Be Defunded 3. Who Is Funding Big Livestock? 4. Has Fossil Fuel Divestment Worked? 5. Can Big Livestock Be Defunded? 6. Defunding Big Livestock: A Roadmap 7. Conclusion: The End of Unconditional Capital

Über Autor(innen)

Divya Narain is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in Food Systems Finance, currently an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Oxford. She holds a PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia.