EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART VIII Chapter 4: Influence/Speechlessness (Cont.) More influences Beyond the unhealthy influence that our demand for factory-farmed meat has in the area of food-borne illness and communicable diseases, we could cite many other influences on public health: most obviously the now widely recognized relationship between …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XIV Chapter 12: Feeding the Ten Billion (Cont.) 12.5 Old and new crops We are an exploratory, inventive species, fascinated by the new, dispensing with the old. So ‘new’ crops attract optimistic headlines while old ones are often blamed for …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART VII Chapter 4: Influence/Speechlessness (Cont.) The life and death of a bird The second farm I saw with C was set up in a series of twenty sheds, each 45 feet wide by 490 feet long, each holding in the neighborhood of 33,000 birds. …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XIII Chapter 12: Feeding the Ten Billion 12.1 Introduction: routes to greater food production The world must develop the capacity to feed the ten billion within the next 40-50 years, predominantly within Asia and Africa. There are two quite separate …
STOLEN HARVEST THE HIJACKING OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2000 PART 1I Chapter 1: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Cont.) Creating hunger with monocultures Global chemical corporations, recently reshaped into “life sciences” corporations, declare that without them and their patented products, the world cannot be fed. Industrial agriculture …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART VI Chapter 4: Influence/Speechlessness On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime. Lam Hoi-ka Johan Hultin, a six-foot-tall Swede arrived in Brevig on August 19, 1997, and got right to digging. Beneath the feet of solid ice were …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XII Chapter 11: What the World Eats Now 11.1 Introduction: food for thought about food In this chapter we look at the several aspects of the present world food situation and begin to wonder where we from here. Despite a …
STOLEN HARVEST THE HIJACKING OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2000 PART 1 Introduction Over the past two decades every issue I have been engaged in as an ecological activist and organic intellectual has revealed that what the industrial economy calls “growth” is really a form of theft from nature and …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XI Chapter 10: The Sixth Billion (1986-1998/9) 10.1 Introduction: the recognition of limits In 1998/9, just 200 years after Malthus first published his Essay on the Principle of Population, the world population will reach 6 billion. That is six times …
FORMULA FOR LIFE THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON CORRECT NUTRITION, ANTI-OXIDANTS AND VITAMINS, DISEASE PREVENTION AND LONGEVITY EBERHARD KRONHAUSEN, Ed.D. & PHYLLIS KRONHAUSEN, Ed.D. WITH HARRY B. DEMOPOULOS, M.D. QUILL WILLIAM MORROW 1989 PART III Chapter 3: why people give up on vitamins In this health conscious age, half the people you know may be …
