Righteous porkchop : finding a life and good food beyond factory farms / Nicolette Hahn Niman.
2009
TD930.2 .N56 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Righteous porkchop : finding a life and good food beyond factory farms / Nicolette Hahn Niman.
Author
Niman, Nicolette Hahn.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780061466496
0061466492
0061466492
Imprint
New York, NY : Collins Living, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 321 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
TD930.2 .N56 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
636.08/32
Summary
Investigating hog manure pollution was hardly the glamorous assignment Nicolette Hahn Niman pictured when going to work for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in New York. But her odyssey into the inner workings of the "factory farm" industry transformed her into an intrepid environmental lawyer who goes up against the big-business farming establishment. Niman uncovers shocking practices, including inhumane animal confinement and devastating water and air pollution. She organizes a national reform movement to fight these practices and shows that livestock farming can be done in a better way--not only for hogs, but also for poultry, fish, and dairy cows. She also tours the best of farms, where traditional farmers and ranchers treat their animals humanely and have joined with other farmers to successfully market the foods they produce. She profiles the innovative and cost-effective methods these operations have incorporated to make a profit by ethical, sustainable means.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
My crash course in modern meat
An unexpectedly natural turn
What came first, the chicken
and the egg
Facing off with Big Ag
It's a pig's life
A door closed, a door opened
Beef, the most (unfairly) maligned of meats
The un-sacred (milk) cow
A bit about fish
Finding the right foods
Answering obstacles to reform
Back on the ranch.
An unexpectedly natural turn
What came first, the chicken
and the egg
Facing off with Big Ag
It's a pig's life
A door closed, a door opened
Beef, the most (unfairly) maligned of meats
The un-sacred (milk) cow
A bit about fish
Finding the right foods
Answering obstacles to reform
Back on the ranch.