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Total Pages : 207 pages
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Download or read book Understanding the Impacts of Large-scale Swine Production written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna M. Kleiner
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Total Pages : 740 pages
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Download or read book Measuring the Impacts of Large-scale Swine Operations on Quality of Life in Rural Communities written by Anna M. Kleiner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic increase in the development of large factory-style swine production facilities in rural America has occurred in recent decades in association with transnational corporations (TNCs) sourcing the planet for profitable production locations. The development of industrial swine facilities is one of the most critical and contentious issues at the intersections of agriculture, environment, and community. The siting of these facilities has resulted in social conflict among and between family members, friends, neighbors, populist organizations, policymakers, and industry leaders. Debate continues over the social, economic, and environmental impacts associated with these facilities. This study focuses on the hypothesis that the unit of analysis is vital in understanding the effects of the industrialization of agriculture on individual and community well-being. Analyzing data at a unit of analysis smaller than the county-level can reveal a diversity of impacts not captured by larger aggregate units of analysis. Based on the Goldschmidt literature, this research relies on historical document analysis, unstructured interviews, and secondary data to describe the industrialization of agriculture, economic trends in four study counties, and public perceptions toward intensive hog production as a strategy for economic development. Quantitative analysis of survey data is used to measure the association between proximity to hog facilities and perceptions of quality of life of residents across three Missouri counties, with a fourth county used as the control county. Results suggest that in counties where these facilities are concentrated, experiencing the effects of large-scale industrial swine facilities within close proximity has deleterious effects on the personal quality of life of residents, such as their behavior at home. At the same time, these facilities generate public and private revenue valued by residents county-wide and continue to be supported in counties enjoying their economic benefits. Residents who reside in rural counties lacking these facilities generally do not support them based more on the perception that they may economically threaten their rural livelihood and agricultural interests.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251303770
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Environmental performance of pig supply chains: Guidelines for assessment (Version 1) written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a living document produced by the Livestock Environmental and Assessment Performance (LEAP) Partnership. The document presents a methodology and provides guidance for the assessment of the environmental performance of pig supply chains. It provides users guidance on how to apply the life cycle assessment approach to pig supply chains. Demand for livestock products is projected to grow 1.3 percent per year until 2050, driven by global population growth and increasing wealth and urbanization. This projected growth places significant pressure on the livestock sector to perform in a more sustainable way. Currently, many different methods are used to assess the environmental impacts and performance of livestock products. This causes confusion and makes it difficult to compare results and set priorities for continuing improvement. The intention of this document is to provide an overview assessment of existing studies and associated methods that have used life cycle assessment for the evaluation of pig supply chains.
Author : Kendall M. Thu
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791438879
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities written by Kendall M. Thu and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on swine production to illuminate the processes of agricultural industrialization as a whole and its consequences for the social, economic, human, environmental, and political health of the rural US. Politicians, farmers, a veterinarian, a medical psychologist, an agricultural economist, a biological ecologist, a farm organization president, and anthropologists contribute their perspectives within the framework of Walter Goldschmidt's research on food production. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Larry May
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351576305
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Applied Ethics written by Larry May and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling text continues to fill an existing gap in the literature taught in applied ethics courses. As a growing number of courses that include the perspectives of diverse cultures are being added to the university curriculum, texts are needed that represent more multicultural and diverse histories and backgrounds. This new edition enhances gender coverage, as nearly half of the pieces are now authored by women. The new edition also increases the percentage of pieces written by those who come from a non-Western background. It offers twelve up-to-date articles (not found in previous editions) on human rights, environmental ethics, poverty, war and violence, gender, race, euthanasia, and abortion; all of these topics are addressed from Western and non-Western perspectives.
Author : Randy Ziegenhorn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429840012
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Networking the Farm written by Randy Ziegenhorn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1999, this book presents the results of an ethnographic study of the emergence of co-operative production networks among hog farm workers in Iowa. In it the author assesses both the internal organizational requirements for the successful network formation and the potential for networks to give farmers a competitive edge in the swine industry. Departing from the traditional emphasis on individual decision making in agricultural economies and economic anthropology, this book emphasizes instead the institutional setting in which such networks are formed. The author argues that networks succeed when they are closely tied to and reflective of local social structure. Those networks that attempt to employ a master plan designed by experts often fail. Although many succesful networks exist, networking has yet to achieve the economic clout enjoyed by large scale corporate swine producers. The author describes the availability of credit for new swine production ventures in Iowa and shows the extent to which large scale producers have developed network-like connections with banks, packers, and contract producers.
Author : David Kirby
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 142995809X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Animal Factory written by David Kirby and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that contaminates our air, land, water, and food. In this thoroughly researched book, Kirby follows three families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by immense neighboring animal farms. These farms (known as "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations," or CAFOs), confine thousands of pigs, dairy cattle, and poultry in small spaces, often under horrifying conditions, and generate enormous volumes of fecal and biological waste as well as other toxins. Weaving science, politics, law, big business, and everyday life, Kirby accompanies these families in their struggles against animal factories. A North Carolina fisherman takes on pig farms upstream to preserve his river, his family's life, and his home. A mother in a small Illinois town pushes back against an outsized dairy farm and its devastating impact. And a Washington State grandmother becomes an unlikely activist when her home is invaded by foul odors and her water supply is compromised by runoff from leaking lagoons of cattle waste. Animal Factory is an important book about our American food system gone terribly wrong---and the people who are fighting to restore sustainable farming practices and save our limited natural resources.
Author : Alexander Mackay Ervin
Publisher : Saskatoon : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Saskatchewan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beyond Factory Farming written by Alexander Mackay Ervin and published by Saskatoon : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Saskatchewan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Wirzba
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813130182
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Essential Agrarian Reader written by Norman Wirzba and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a Foreword by Barbara Kingsolver. A compelling worldview with advocates from around the globe, agrarianism challenges the shortcomings of our industrial and technological economy. Not simply focused on farming, the agrarian outlook encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote the health of land, community, and culture. Agrarianism reminds us that no matter how urban we become, our survival will always be inextricably linked to the precious resources of soil, water, and air. Combining fresh insights from the disciplines of education, law, history, urban and regional planning, economics, philosophy, religion, ecology, politics, and agriculture, these original essays develop a sophisticated critique of our culture's current relationship to the land, while offering practical alternatives. Leading agrarians, including Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, Brian Donahue, Eric Freyfogle, and David Orr, explain how our goals should be redirected toward genuinely sustainable communities. These writers call us to an honest accounting and correction of our often destructive ways. They suggest how our society can take practical steps toward integrating soils, watersheds, forests, wildlife, urban areas, and human populations into one great system—a responsible flourishing of our world and culture.
Author : Jane Adams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201035
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Fighting for the Farm written by Jane Adams and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In North America industrial agriculture has now virtually displaced diversified family farming. The prevailing system depends heavily on labor supplied by migrants and immigrants, and its reliance on monoculture raises environmental concerns. In this book Jane Adams and contributors—anthropologists and political scientists among them—analyze the political dynamics that have transformed agriculture in the United States and Canada since the 1920s. The contributors demonstrate that people become politically active in arenas that range from the state to public discourse to relations between growers and their contractors or laborers, and that politics is a process that is intimately local as well as global. The farm financial crisis of the 1980s precipitated rapid consolidation of farms and a sharp decline in rural populations. It brought new actors into the political process, including organic farmers and environmentalists. Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed considers the politics of farm policy and the consequences of the increasing alignment of agricultural interests with the global economy. The first section of the book places North American agriculture in the context of the world system; the second, a series of case studies, examines the foundations of current U.S. policy; subsequent sections deal with the political implications for daily life and the politics of the environment. Recognizing the influence of an array of political constituencies and arenas, Fighting for the Farm charts a decisive shift since the early part of the twentieth century from a discursive regime rooted in economics to one that now incorporates a variety of environmental and quality-of-life concerns.
Author : C. A. Brebbia
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1845647041
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Environmental Health Risk VII written by C. A. Brebbia and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Health Risk VII contains contributions presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factors on Health. The successful biennial series began in 1997 and covers health problems related to the environment, which are causing increasing concern all over the world. Important to the public health is Society's ability to ensure good quality air, water, soil, and food and to eliminate or considerably reduce hazards from the human environment. That ability greatly depends on the development of techniques, both modelling and interpretive, that allow decision-makers to assess the risk posed by various factors and to propose improvements.The book covers such topics as: Risk prevention and monitoring; Mitigation problems; Disaster management and preparedness; Epidemiological studies and pandemics; Control of pollution risk; Air pollution; Water quality issues; Food safety; Radiation fields; Toxicology analysis; Ecology and health; Waste disposal; Occupational health; Social and economic issues; Accidents and man-made risks; The built environment and health; Designing for health; Contamination in rural areas; Environmental education and risk abatement.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials
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Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Superfund laws and animal agriculture written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kelley J. Donham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118647408
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Medicine written by Kelley J. Donham and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly updated, Agricultural Medicine: Rural Occupational Health, Safety, and Prevention, Second Editionis a groundbreaking and comprehensive textbook and reference for students and practitioners of public health, and professionals in the field of rural agricultural occupational health and safety. The book introduces specific occupational and environmental health and safety issues faced by agricultural workers and rural residents, and provides a roadmap to establishing sustainable worker and public health support in agricultural communities. Responding to reader demand, Agricultural Medicine, Second Edition now features more case studies, key point summaries, and new international perspective chapters comparing North American health and agricultural practices to those in Europe, the Asia Pacific, and South America. Agricultural health and safety engages a multidisciplinary team of medical professionals, veterinarians, safety professionals, engineers, sociologists, epidemiologists, and psychologists, for whom this book serves as an essential resource.
Author : Alessandro Bonanno
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271033894
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Stories of Globalization written by Alessandro Bonanno and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Analyses transnational corporations, groups who resist them, and the primary context within which the relationship between transnational corporations and their opponents unfold: the state. Argues that globalization is a contested terrain in which the power of transnational corporations is affected by mounting opposition and internal contradictions"--Provided by publisher.
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Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Environmental Assessment of Proposed Revisions to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Regulation and Effluent Limitations Guidelines for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Akhtar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230358527
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Animals and Public Health written by A. Akhtar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling argument of how human health is adversely affected by our poor treatment of non-human animals. The author contents that in order to successfully confront the 21st Century's health challenges, we need to broaden the definition of the word 'public' in public health to include non-human animals.
Author : Carolyn Johnsen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803276178
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Raising a Stink written by Carolyn Johnsen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reporter long familiar with the controversy, Carolyn Johnsen draws on a wealth of interviews, archival material, and her own extensive experience as a journalist to present a timely, informative, and balanced account of this complicated and troubling agricultural practice - and to put a human face on its causes and consequences.".
