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Philip Lymbery is the CEO of the leading international organization for the protection of farm animals, Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), and a visiting professor at the University of Winchester. Together with Isabel Oakeshott, a political reporter for The Sunday Times, he embarked on an exploratory journey to uncover the hidden costs of cheap meat production and the devastating impacts of industrial agriculture on people, animals, and the entire planet. Farm animals have disappeared from agricultural land as food production has become a global industry. No one knows for sure what goes into food production and what we consume - as was revealed during the horse meat scandal in the United Kingdom. Agricultural intensification threatens our landscape, health, and the quality of our food worldwide, regardless of where we live. We are approaching a tipping point. • Our health is at risk: half of all antibiotics used globally are routinely given to industrially farmed animals, contributing to the emergence of deadly superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics. • There is a systematic destruction of wildlife: The United States is transporting trucks of bees (or they are flown in from as far away as Australia) for...
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Author: Lymbery Philip, Oakeshott Isabel
Publication date: March 21, 2017
Manufacturer: Carpe Momentum s.r.o.
Genres: Non-fiction literature, Specialized and technical literature, Books
Pages: 448
ISBN/EAN: 9788090533448

