Tony Weis

The Ecological Hoofprint (eBook, ePUB)

The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand.

Following his previous ground-breaking book The Global Food Economy, Tony Weis explains clearly why the growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical contradictions of industrial capitalist agriculture.

The Ecological Hoofprint provides a rigorous and eye-opening way of understanding what this system 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780320991
• Artikelnr.: 39975279

Autorenporträt

Tony Weis (Ph.D., Queen's University) is Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Western Ontario, Canada. His research is principally interested in examining how global agrarian change is interacting with the spatial marginality of small farmers, related social and environmental problems, and struggles for land reform. He has published in various journals, including the Journal of Peasant Studies, Capital and Class, the Journal of Agrarian Change, Capital, Nature, Socialism, and Global Environmental Change.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: meatification and why it matters 1. Contextualizing the
hoofprint: global environmental change and inequality 2. The uneven
geography of meat 3. The industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex 4.
Confronting the ecological hoofprint: towards a more sustainable, just, and
humane world