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Author Fitzgerald, Amy J., author.

Title Animals as food : (re)connecting production, processing, consumption, and impacts / Amy J. Fitzgerald
Published East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 186 pages) : illustrations
Series The animal turn
Animal turn.
Contents Prehistory through the colonization of North America -- The industrialization of livestock production -- The industrialization of slaughter and processing -- Consuming animals as food -- Industrialization fallout -- Bridging the divide between production, processing, consumption, and impacts
Summary "Every day, millions of people around the world sit down to a meal that includes meat. This book explores several questions as it examines the use of animals as food: How did the domestication and production of livestock animals emerge and why? How did current modes of raising and slaughtering animals for human consumption develop, and what are their consequences? What can be done to mitigate and even reverse the impacts of animal production? With insight into the historical, cultural, political, legal, and economic processes that shape our use of animals as food, Fitzgerald provides a holistic picture and explicates the connections in the supply chain that are obscured in the current mode of food production. Bridging the distance in animal agriculture between production, processing, consumption, and their associated impacts, this analysis envisions ways of redressing the negative effects of the use of animals as food. It details how consumption levels and practices have changed as the relationship between production, processing, and consumption has shifted. Due to the wide-ranging questions addressed in this book, the author draws on many fields of inquiry, including sociology, (critical) animal studies, history, economics, law, political science, anthropology, criminology, environmental science, geography, philosophy, and animal science."--Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index
Notes Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed March 15, 2016)
Subject Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- Social aspects -- United States
Meat industry and trade -- Social aspects -- United States
Animal welfare.
Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Human-animal relationships.
Livestock -- North America
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
Animal welfare
Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects
Human-animal relationships
Livestock
North America
United States
Form Electronic book
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