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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790624503321

Autore

Weis Anthony John <1973->

Titolo

The ecological hoofprint : the global burden of industrial livestock / / Tony Weis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2013

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-350-22308-5

1-78032-099-X

1-78032-254-2

1-78032-096-5

1-78032-098-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Disciplina

338.176

Soggetti

Livestock systems - Environmental aspects

Livestock - Environmental aspects

Meat industry and trade - Environmental aspects

Social impact of environmental issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contextualizing the hoofprint: global environmental change and inequality -- The uneven geography of meat -- The industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex -- Confronting the hoofprint: towards a sustainable, just, and humane world.

Sommario/riassunto

The Ecological Hoofprint is a rigorous and eye-opening explanation of how industrial livestock production is driving the exploding global consumption of meat, which is implicated in momentous but greatly under-appreciated problems. Tony Weis, author of the ground-breaking The Global Food Economy, shows what this 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.