The Ecological Hoofprint
The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock
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The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand. Following his previous ground-breaking book The Global Food Economy, Tony Weis explains clearly why the growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical contradictions of industrial capitalist agriculture. The Ecological Hoofprint provides a rigorous and eye-opening way of understanding what this system means for the health of the planet, how it contributes to worsening human inequality, and how it constitutes a profound but invisible aspect of the violence of everyday life.
About this Author
Tony Weis (Ph.D., Queen's University) is Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Western Ontario, Canada. His research is principally interested in examining how global agrarian change is interacting with the spatial marginality of small farmers, related social and environmental problems, and struggles for land reform. He has published in various journals, including the Journal of Peasant Studies, Capital and Class, the Journal of Agrarian Change, Capital, Nature, Socialism, and Global Environmental Change.
Format: Trade Paperback
Pages: 200
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2013-11-01
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