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Plucked! - The Truth About Chicken (Paperback)
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Plucked! - The Truth About Chicken (Paperback)
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List price R481
Loot Price R241
Discovery Miles 2 410
You Save R240 (50%)
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'This is an important book. You can't understand the radical
cheapening of food, with all its unpleasant effects, for farm
animals and our most cherished rural landscapes, until you begin to
understand the industrialisation of chicken. Industrial chicken is
now displacing many more sustainable farming systems, driving them
out of business. This book explains how that happened and why we
should all be worried about it and demand change' James Rebanks,
author of The Shepherd's Life Plucked! examines everything that has
gone wrong in the modern agricultural system: overuse of
antibiotics, threats to the environment, violations of animal
welfare, destruction of farming communities, disruption of
international trade and delivery of over-processed,
obesity-promoting, nutritionally hollow food. Drawing on years of
research into the 'big chicken' industry, acclaimed science writer
Maryn McKenna uncovers the people searching for solutions and
seeking to return chicken to a sustainable and honoured place on
our plate and asking whether, with reform, chicken can safely feed
the world. Rich with characters who together propelled the story of
chicken's unintended consequences, Plucked! will reveal how the
antibiotic era created modern agriculture. It is an eye-opening
exploration of how the world's most popular meat came to define so
much more than just chicken nuggets.
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