Global Meat

Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-262-53773-5
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: Food, Health, and the Environment

The growth of the global meat industry and the implications for climate change, food insecurity, workers' rights, the treatment of animals, and other issues.Global meat production and consumption have risen sharply and steadily over the past five decades, with per capita meat consumption almost doubling since 1960. The expanding global meat industry, meanwhile, driven by new trade policies and fueled by government subsidies, is dominated by just a few corporate giants. Industrial farming—the intensive production of animals and fish—has spread across the globe. Millions of acres of land are now used for pastures, feed crops, and animal waste reservoirs. Drawing on concrete examples, the contributors to Global Meat explore the implications of the rise of a global meat industry for a range of social and environmental issues, including climate change, clean water supplies, hunger, workers' rights, and the treatment of animals.Three themes emerge from their discussions: the role of government and corporations in shaping the structure of the global meat industry; the paradox of simultaneous rising meat production and greater food insecurity; and the industry's contribution to social and environmental injustice. Contributors address such specific topics as the dramatic increase in pork production and consumption in China; land management by small-scale cattle farmers in the Amazon; the effect on the climate of rising greenhouse gas emissions from cattle raised for meat; and the tensions between economic development and animal welfare.Contributors
Conner Bailey, Robert M. Chiles, Celize Christy, Riva C. H. Denny, Carrie Freshour, Philip H. Howard, Elizabeth Ransom, Tom Rudel, Mindi Schneider, Nhuong Tran, Bill Winders

Autoren/Hrsg.

Winders, Bill

Ransom, Elizabeth

Weitere Mitwirkende

Winders, Bill

Ransom, Elizabeth

Howard, Phil

Bailey, Conner

Tran, Nhuong

Schneider, Mindi

Rudel, Thomas

Freshour, Carrie

Christy, Celize

Denny, Riva C. H.

Chiles, Robert M.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Lebensmittelsicherheit und -versorgung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Über Autor(innen)

Ransom, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Ransom is Associate Professor of International Affairs and Senior Research Associate at the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University.

Ransom, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Ransom is Associate Professor of International Affairs and Senior Research Associate at the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University.

Winders, Bill
Bill Winders is Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Grains and The Politics of Food Supply.

Winders, Bill
Bill Winders is Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Grains and The Politics of Food Supply.