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Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf

Author : Peter Lovenheim
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307566099
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf written by Peter Lovenheim and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four years ago, journalist Peter Lovenheim was standing in a long line at McDonald’s to buy a Happy Meal for his little daughter, which would come with a much-desired Teenie Beanie Baby—either a black-and-white cow named “Daisy” or an adorable red bull named “Snort.” Finding it rather strange that young children were being offered cuddly toy cows one minute and eating the grilled remains of real ones the next, Lovenheim suddenly saw clearly the great disconnect between what we eat and our knowledge of where it comes from. Determined to understand the process by which living animals become food, Lovenheim did the only thing he could think of: He bought a calf—make that twin calves, number 7 and number 8—from the dairy farm where they were born and asked for permission to spend as much time as necessary hanging around and observing everything that happened in the lives of these farm animals. Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf is the provocative true story of Peter Lovenheim’s hands-on journey into the dairy and beef industries as he follows his calves from conception to possible consumption. In the process, he gets to know the good, hard-working people who raise our cattle and make milk products, beef, and veal available to consumers like you and me. He supplies us with a “fly on the wall” view of how these animals are used to put food on America’s very abundant tables. Constantly vigilant about wanting to be an observer who never interferes, Lovenheim allows the reader to see every aspect of a cow’s life, without passing judgment. Reading this book will forever change the way you think about food and the people and animals who provide it for us. From the Hardcover edition.

Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf

Author : Peter Lovenheim
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
ISBN 13 : 9780609805442
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf written by Peter Lovenheim and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist takes a behind-the-scenes tour of the beef and dairy industry as he describes how he purchased a pair of calves whose lives he planned to follow from adorable babies to slaughter.

101 Reasons why I'm a Vegetarian

Author : Pamela Rice
Publisher : Lantern Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590560754
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book 101 Reasons why I'm a Vegetarian written by Pamela Rice and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded, updated version of Pam Rice's widely read pamphlet. "Without sentimentality or preaching, [Rice] provides a clear and thoughtful understanding of one of the most important choices a person can make."--John Robbins, author of "Diet for a New America" and "The Food Revolution."

A Field Guide to Buying Organic

Author : Luddene Perry
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553590294
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to Buying Organic written by Luddene Perry and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the myths about organic versus nonorganic, this guide compares the quality and health of organically to conventionally grown, and helps shoppers decide when organic is worth it--or not.

The Ethics of What We Eat

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1594866872
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of What We Eat written by Peter Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the food choices people make and practices of the food producers who create this food for us leading to a discussion of how we might put more ethics into our shopping carts.

This Is Hope: Green Vegans and the New Human Ecology

Author : Will Anderson
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780998902
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis This Is Hope: Green Vegans and the New Human Ecology by : Will Anderson

Download or read book This Is Hope: Green Vegans and the New Human Ecology written by Will Anderson and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Hope compares the outcomes of two human ecologies; one is tragic, the other is full of promise. As Will explains in his Introduction, ‘Our human ecology is the expression of everything we do and is represented by every interaction we have on earth…it consists of the multitude of relationships we have with other people, other species, and our physical environment’. He describes our current human ecology in depth to illustrate how we are living inappropriately, cruelly, and unsustainably. This is obsolete and has been for a long time; it is the cause of our overpopulation, our overconsumption of resources, the poverty of ecosystems and people, and our disregard for the rights of individuals from other species. This is Hope proposes a new human ecology to replace it.

The Pig Who Sang to the Moon

Author : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307417298
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Pig Who Sang to the Moon written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling, irrefutable evidence that barnyard creatures have feelings too, even consciousness. Weaving history, literature, anecdotes, scientific studies, and Masson’s own vivid experiences observing pigs, cows, sheep, goats, and chickens over the course of five years, this important book at last gives voice, meaning, and dignity to these gentle beasts that are bred to be milked, shorn, butchered, and eaten. Can we ever know what makes an animal happy? Many animal behaviorists say no. But Jeffrey Masson has a different view: An animal is happy if it can live according to its own nature. Farm animals suffer greatly in this regard. Chickens, for instance, like to perch in trees at night, to avoid predators and to nestle with friends. The obvious conclusion: They cannot be happy when confined twenty to a cage. From field and barn, to pen and coop, Masson bears witness to the emotions and intelligence of these remarkable farm animals, each unique with distinct qualities. Curious, intelligent, self-reliant–many will find it hard to believe that these attributes describe a pig. In fact, there is much that humans share with pigs. They dream, know their names, and can see colors. Mother cows mourn the loss of their calves when their babies are taken away to slaughter. Given a choice between food that is nutritious or lacking in minerals, sheep will select the former, balancing their diet and correcting the deficiency. Goats display quite a sense of humor, dignity, and fearlessness (Indian goats have been known to kill leopards). Chickens are naturally sociable–they will gather around a human companion and stand there serenely preening themselves or sit quietly on the ground beside someone they trust. For far too long farm animals have been denigrated and treated merely as creatures of instinct rather than as sentient beings. Shattering the abhorrent myth of the “dumb animal without feelings,” Jeffrey Masson has written a revolutionary book that is sure to stir human emotions far and wide.

Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900452844X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reclaims the concept of animal resistance and exposes the asymmetry of human-animal relationships at sites of commodification. The chapters within explore instances in which resistance challenges human dominion and identity and in some cases ignites social movements on behalf of animals themselves.

The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food

Author : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393073505
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s a challenge to create transformative moments with books, but [Masson] does it.”—Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times In this revelatory work, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson shows how food affects our moral selves, our health, and our planet. Masson investigates how denial keeps us from recognizing the animal at the end of our fork and urges readers to consciously make decisions about food.

Food

Author : Warren Belasco
Publisher : Berg
ISBN 13 : 1845206738
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Food written by Warren Belasco and published by Berg. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Food: The Key Concepts presents an exciting, coherent and interdisciplinary introduction to food studies for the beginning reader. Food Studies is an increasingly complex field, drawing on disciplines as diverse as Sociology, Anthropology and Cultural Studies at one end and Economics, Politics and Agricultural Science at the other. In order to clarify the issues, Food: The Key Concepts distills food choices down to three competing considerations: consumer identity; matters of convenience and price; and an awareness of the consequences of what is consumed. The book concludes with an examination of two very different future scenarios for feeding the world's population: the technological fix, which looks to science to provide the solution to our future food needs; and the anthropological fix, which hopes to change our expectations and behaviors. Throughout, the analysis is illustrated with lively case studies. Bulleted chapter summaries, questions and guides to further reading are also provided."--P. [4] of cover.

Food Lit

Author : Melissa Brackney Stoeger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Food Lit written by Melissa Brackney Stoeger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential tool for assisting leisure readers interested in topics surrounding food, this unique book contains annotations and read-alikes for hundreds of nonfiction titles about the joys of comestibles and cooking. Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction provides a much-needed resource for librarians assisting adult readers interested in the topic of food—a group that is continuing to grow rapidly. Containing annotations of hundreds of nonfiction titles about food that are arranged into genre and subject interest categories for easy reference, the book addresses a diversity of reading experiences by covering everything from foodie memoirs and histories of food to extreme cuisine and food exposés. Author Melissa Stoeger has organized and described hundreds of nonfiction titles centered on the themes of food and eating, including life stories, history, science, and investigative nonfiction. The work emphasizes titles published in the past decade without overlooking significant benchmark and classic titles. It also provides lists of suggested read-alikes for those titles, and includes several helpful appendices of fiction titles featuring food, food magazines, and food blogs.

The Rise of Critical Animal Studies

Author : Nik Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135100942
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Critical Animal Studies written by Nik Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of human/animal relations becomes crucial to the urgent questions of our time, notably in relation to environmental crisis, this collection explores the inner tensions within the relatively new and broad field of animal studies. This provides a platform for the latest critical thinking on the condition and experience of animals. The volume is structured around four sections: engaging theory doing critical animal studies critical animal studies and anti-capitalism contesting the human, liberating the animal: veganism and activism. The Rise of Critical Animal Studies demonstrates the centrality of the contribution of critical animal studies to vitally important contemporary debates and considers future directions for the field. This edited collection will be useful for students and scholars of sociology, gender studies, psychology, geography, and social work.

In the Neighborhood

Author : Peter Lovenheim
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101186674
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book In the Neighborhood written by Peter Lovenheim and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a popular New York Times Op-Ed piece, this is the quirky, heartfelt account of one man's quest to meet his neighbors--and find a sense of community. **As seen in Parade, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun-Times, and more. **Winner of the Zocalo Square Book Prize, and recently named a first selection by Action Book Club. "It's impossible to read this book without feeling the urge to knock on neighbors' doors." -Chicago Sun-Times Journalist and author Peter Lovenheim lived on the same street in suburban Rochester, NY, most of his life. But it was only after a brutal murder-suicide rocked the community that he was struck by a fact of modern life in this comfortable enclave: No one knew anyone else. Thus begins Peter's search to meet and get to know his neighbors. An inquisitive person, he does more than just introduce himself. He asks, ever so politely, if he can sleep over. In this smart, engaging, and deeply felt book, Lovenheim takes readers inside the homes, minds, and hearts of his neighbors and asks a thought-provoking question: Do neighborhoods matter--and is something lost when we live among strangers?

Burger

Author : Carol J. Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501329456
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Burger written by Carol J. Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such as Bill Gates to create the non-animal burger that can feed the world, the burger's identity has become as malleable as that patty of protein itself, before it is thrown on a grill. Carol Adams's Burger is a fast-paced and eclectic exploration of the history, business, cultural dynamics, and gender politics of the ordinary hamburger. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

As I Knew Him:

Author : Anne Serling
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806536748
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book As I Knew Him: written by Anne Serling and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A haunting and beautifully written memoir about the creator of The Twilight Zone." --Robert Redford "Beautifully written. . .I laughed and I cried. I plan to read it again once I catch my breath." --Carol Burnett In this intimate, lyrical memoir about her iconic father, Anne Serling reveals the fun-loving dad and family man behind the imposing figure the public saw hosting The Twilight Zone each week. After his unexpected, early death, Anne, just 20, was left stunned. But through talking to his friends, poring over old correspondence, and recording her childhood memories, Anne not only found solace, but gained a deeper understanding of this remarkable man. Now she shares her discoveries, along with personal photos, revealing letters, and scenes of his childhood, war years, and their family's time together. A tribute to Rod Serling's legacy as a visionary, storyteller, and humanist, As I Knew Him is also a moving testament to the love between fathers and daughters. "A tender, thoughtful and very personal portrait of American genius Rod Serling." --Alice Hoffman "Richly told. . .a haunting memoir about grief, creativity, and a father-daughter bond as memorable and magical as any Twilight Zone episode." --Caroline Leavitt "Filled with anecdotes and self-reflection. . .Serling still casts an outsized shadow." --Variety "Lush memories of a remarkable father and adept analysis of his work." --Kirkus Reviews

The Way We Eat

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Way We Eat written by Peter Singer and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the food choices people make and practices of the food producers who create this food for us leading to a discussion of how we might put more ethics into our shopping carts.

A Cow's Life

Author : Monte Montgomery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802718116
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book A Cow's Life written by Monte Montgomery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people, from nature lovers to collectors of cow memorabilia, are enamored of cows, yet few have any inkling of the fascinating history of, arguably, the animal most crucial to the survival and advancement of human civilization. Our close relationship with cows goes back eight thousand years, to the revolutionary advent of domestication in Mesopotamia and the Indus River valley. Since then, humans have relied on cows for milk, meat, and muscle. M. R. Montgomery's own keen interest in cows began on his cousin's Montana cattle ranch. He traces their history from the formidable, long-extinct Auroch-the 6,000-pound ancestor of all cattle on Earth-to the ancient cattle roads and drives in England, to the selective mixing practiced by British cattlemen well before Charles Darwin or Gregor Mendel. He charts the origin of breeds and relates the path by which the Aberdeen-Angus has today become the "king of cows." With a sympathetic eye for detail, born of his own experience, he chronicles the day-to-day life of cattle and their keepers- from encouraging good mothering skills to rooting out genetic disease in a herd. After experiencing Montgomery's bovine fascination, even cow lovers will have new appreciation for the objects of their affection.