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Farmageddon
- The True Cost of Cheap Meat
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health, and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.
- Our health is under threat: half of all antibiotics used worldwide (rising to 80 per cent in US) are routinely given to industrially farmed animals, contributing to the emergence of deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs
- Wildlife is being systematically destroyed: bees are now trucked across the States (and even airfreighted from Australia) to pollinate the fruit trees in the vast orchards of California, where a chemical assault has decimated the wild insect population
- Fresh fish are being hoovered from the oceans: fish that could feed local populations are being turned into fishmeal for farmed fish, chickens, and pigs thousands of miles away
- Cereals that could feed billions of people are being given to animals: soya and grain that could nourish the world’s poorest, are now grown increasingly as animal fodder
- Epidemic waste underpins the mega-farming model: While food prices rocket, surplus food is thrown away
Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world - from the UK, Europe, and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru, and Mexico. It is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future.
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- Darron Kokott
- 19-05-21
Raw, brutal and sad.
This is a raw and brutal account of modern day consumption and the impact it is having on living creatures and the earth at large. If you are seeking inspiration to become a vegetarian, or looking for reasons to support a vegan lifestyle, then here it is. Whilst I am neither vegetarian or vegan, it does open one’s eyes to just how ludicrous modern farming has become to satisfy a greedy, consumerist lifestyle. It really highlights the fact that perhaps the true animals are ourselves and not the livestock we are abusing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-12-19
Solid read on the impact of "Cheap Food"
Insightful, interesting and well delivered. Not obtrusive on what you should consume, however gives great insights into the long term damage of intensive farming, our cheap quick diets and the community damage worldwide
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- Elena
- 16-05-16
Must read!
This should be mandatory reading for everyone. It is a total eye-opener, even for convinced vegetarians and vegans and even for readers of 'Eating Animals'. Very well written and narrated, it is well-structured in thematic chapters and quite comprehensive, dealing both with animal farming (cattle, poultry, fish...) and with crops.
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- SquirrelDitz
- 11-01-20
Worth persevering with...
The factual information in this book is important and at times shocking, and the author gives good justification for his reasoning and helpful tips and suggestions for more sustainable consumption.
I did find some of the writing eyebrow raising in its privileged outlook and old fashioned somewhat colonial turns of phrase. This was enhanced by the affected accent of the narrator whose 'interesting' pronunciation choices grated on me to the point of wanted to just turn the whole thing off and find a summary of the facts. I also don't think the writer could have mentioned he was the CEO of Compassion in World Farming any more if he'd tried!
However, there was no denying the facts were compelling and I just hope that the way they are presented doesn't turn people off the book's central, and crucial, message that regardless of whether or not you eat meat or care about animal welfare, factory farming is not sustainable for our health or our planet.
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- Sarah
- 21-07-15
Listen to this if you want to become vegan
This is a terrifying but believable account of the impact of intensive farming. Everyone should know this story.
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- Gregory Monk
- 02-06-17
Just missing the final leap
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Some fascinating and worrying stories from behind the scenes of the meat and dairy industry, but for all the good he does, I can't help but wonder why he doesn't avoid consuming animal products altogether.
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- JayTe
- 09-01-17
Excellent study of what we're eating
Writer does a top notch job of exposing what we actually eating. In most cases it is not even close to what companies would have us believe. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to live a healthy lifestyle.
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- Robert Herron
- 24-11-20
Great insight
Really insightful look into someone thenproblems the world is facing in terms of farming and food.
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- Eire Head
- 13-07-21
Good listen!!
Very informative, and eye opening to the farming practices carried out around the world.
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- Pleasant Craigie
- 25-08-19
Detailed and insightful look into intensive food production
This beautiful written book looks at intensive methods of food production in many parts of the world. We learn about how and why intensive production replaced traditional farming methods and the effect on livestock, biodiversity, the land, oceans and people. At times the horrors of what is described feels relentless, I can’t imagine what it was live visiting some of these places. However, in the final chapters there is hope as we hear about a resurgence of more sustainable farming methods and how we, as consumers, can effect change through what we buy.
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