The CAFO Reader by Daniel Imhoff

March 22, 2011 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. Watershed Media, 2010. 486 pgs. Purchased. Subtitled “The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories”, this book is a collection of essays on the production of beef, pork, chicken, dairy, eggs, and fish in the United States. Essayists include Michael Pollan, Windell Berry, and Eric Schlosser. CAFO stands for “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations” and this reader provides some of the most horrific information and data about the mass production of meat in the United States. The picturesque label depicting […]

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