Swine flu. Bird flu. Massive fish kills and filthy river systems.
Recalls of spinach, lettuce, and other vegetables because of E-coli
bacteria contamination. Eric Schlosser's classic "Fast Food Nation"
revealed how our meat is bred, raised, and brought to market. Now,
in "Animal Factory", bestselling journalist David Kirby takes the
next step, exposing the devastating health and environmental impact
of large-scale factory farms. In this thoroughly researched book,
Kirby follows three American families and communities - one in
North Carolina, one in Illinois, and one in Washington state -
whose lives are utterly changed by immense neighbouring animal
farms. These farms (known as Concentrated Animal Feeding
Operations, or CAFOs), confine thousands upon thousands of pigs,
dairy cattle, and poultry in small spaces, and generate enormous
volumes of faecal and biological waste as well as other pollution
to the air, land, and water. Weaving complex science, politics,
business, and the lives of everyday people, Kirby accompanies a
fisherman who fights to preserve his family's life and home;
watches as a Midwestern community pushes back against a local
farmer with grand ambitions; and interviews an unlikely activist,
who takes on a powerful alliance of corporate and political
entities when her home is covered with toxic soot and her water
supply is compromised by runoff from lagoons of animal waste.
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