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CAFO Reader — Abstract

Table of Contents

Foreword by Douglas R. Tompkins
Introduction by Daniel Imhoff

Part One : The Pathological Mind Set of the CAFO

• Introduction: From Agrarianism to Industrialism
• Farm Factories: The End of Animal Husbandry by Bernard E. Rollin
• Fear Factories: The Case for Compassionate Conservatism—for Animals
  by Matthew Scully
• Cold Evil: The Ideologies of Industrialism by Andrew Kimbrell
• Renewing Husbandry: The Mechanization of Agriculture Is Fast Coming to an End
  by Wendell Berry
• Man‚ the Paragon of Animals? Questioning Our Assumptions About Evolution
  by Christopher Manes

Part Two: Myths of the CAFO

• Myth: Industrial Food Is Cheap
• Myth: Industrial Food Is Efficient
• Myth: Industrial Food Is Healthy
• Myth: CAFOs Are Farms, Not Factories
• Myth: CAFOs Are Good for Rural Communities
• Myth: Industrial Food Benefits the Environment and Wildlife
• Myth: Industrial Food Can Feed the World
• Myth: CAFO Manure Is a Benign Resource

Part Three: Inside the CAFO

• Introduction: What the Industry Doesn’t Want Us to Know
• Power Steer: On the Trail of Industrial Beef by Michael Pollan
• Boss Hog: The Rapid Rise of Industrial Swine by Jeff Tietz
• Watching the Chickens Pass By: The Grueling Monotony of the Disassembly Line by Steve Striffler
• The Milk of Human Unkindness: Industrialization and the Supercow by Anne Mendelson
• Size Matters: The Meat Industry and the Corruption of Darwinian Economics by Steve Bjerklie
• Floating Hog Farms: Is Industrial Aquaculture Spoiling the Aquatic Commons?
  by Ken Stier and Emmett Hopkins

Part Four: The Loss of Diversity

• Introduction: Extinction Is Forever
• Old MacDonald Had Diversity: The Role of Traditional Breeds in a Dynamic Agricultural Future
  by Donald E. Bixby
• Squeezed to the Last Drop: The Loss of Family Farms by Tom Philpott
• Assault on Nature: CAFOs and Biodiversity Loss by George Wuerthner
• Narrowing of Poultry Breeds
• Traditional Versus Industrial Beef and Dairy Cattle
• Traditional Swine and Lean Hogs
• Demise of the Family Farmer
• Loss of Individual Farms

Part Five: Hidden Costs of CAFOs

• Introduction: Economists Have Forgotten How to Add
• From Farms to Factories: Pillaging the Commons by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Bad Meat: Deregulation Makes Eating a High-Risk Behavior by Eric Schlosser
• CAFOs Are in Everyone’s Backyard: Industrial Agriculture, Democracy, and the Future
  by Kendall Thu
• Paying the Polluters: Animal Factories Feast on Taxpayer Subsidies by Martha Noble
• Sliced and Diced: The Labor You Eat by Christopher D. Cook
• Diet for a Hot Planet: Livestock and Climate Change by Anna Lappé

Part Six: Technological Takeover

• Introduction: From Farms to High-Tech
• Antibiotic Drug Abuse: CAFOs Are Squandering Vital Human Medicines by Leo Horrigan, Jay Graham, and Shawn McKenzie
• Franken Food: Livestock Cloning and the Quest for Industrial Perfection by Rebecca Spector
• Genetically Engineered Farm Animals: A Brazen Effort to Make Nature Fit the Industrial Mold by Jaydee Hanson
• Nuclear Meat: Using Radiation and Chemicals to Make Food “Safe” by Wenonah Hauter
• Sliced and Diced: The Labor You Eat by Christopher D. Cook
• Diet for a Hot Planet: Livestock and Climate Change by Anna Lappé

Part Seven: Putting the CAFO Out to Pasture

• Introduction: Toward a Humane, Equitable, and Sustainable Food System
• Toward Sustainability: Moving from Energy Dependence to Energy Exchange by Fred Kirschenmann
• The Good Farmer: An Agrarian Approach to Animal Agriculture by Peter Kaminsky
• Changing the Law: The Road to Reform by Paige Tomaselli and Meredith Niles
• A Chef Speaks Out: Making the Case for Taste by Dan Barber
• Dismantlement: A Movement to Topple Industrial Animal Agriculture by Erik Marcus
• The Farmer’s Bind: Scaling Up for a Different Kind of Agriculture by Becky Weed
• Healing: Restoring Health, Wealth, and Respect to Food and Farming by Joel Salatin
• Vote with Your Fork: It’s Time for Citizens to Take Back the Food System by Daniel Imhoff

Know Where Your Food Comes From
What You Can Do
What Policy Makers Can Do
Contributors
Resources
A Glossary of CAFO Terms and Euphemisms
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Credits
Notes
Index

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