Ethicist Singer and co-author Mason ("Animal Factories") document corporate deception, widespread waste and desensitization to inhumane practices in this consideration of ethical eating. The authors examine three families' grocery-buying habits and the motivations behind those choices. One woman says she's "absorbed in my life and my family...and I don't think very much about the welfare of the meat I'm eating," while a wealthier husband and wife mull the virtues of "triple certified" coffee, buying local and avoiding chocolate harvested by child slave labour, though "no one seems to be pondering that as they eat."In investigating food production conditions, the authors' first-hand experiences alternate between horror and comedy, from slaughterhouses to artificial turkey-insemination ("the hardest, fastest, dirtiest, most disgusting, worst-paid work"). This sometimes-graphic expose is not myopic: profitability and animal welfare are given equal consideration, though the reader finishes the book agreeing with the authors' conclusion that "America's food industry seeks to keep Americans in the dark about the ethical components of their food choices." A no-holds-barred treatise on ethical consumption, this is an important read for those concerned with the long, frightening trip between farm and plate.
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Examines three families' grocery-buying habits and the motivations behind those choices. This book gives equal consideration to profitability and animal welfare and concludes that "America's food industry seeks to keep Americans in the dark about the ethical components of their food choices."
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An absolutely indispensable book for anyone who thinks about what they eat ... I cannot recommend it highly enough. "Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and Raising the Peaceable Kingdom" ... vital, urgent, and disturbing. "Dorothy Kalins, New York Times" ... clear and persuasive. "Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times" A no-holds-barred treatise on ethical consumption. "Publishers Weekly"
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781594866876
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Rodale Press
Vekt
362 gr
Høyde
225 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

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