Animal Factory
“A new book explores the hidden costs behind that one dollar burger…As David Kirby illustrates in his new book, Animal Factory, this way of raising livestock has been linked to antibiotic resistant bacteria and food-borne illness. The author explains what’s gone wrong and how it all might be fixed.”
O, The Oprah Magazine
Swine flu, bird flu, unusual concentrations of cancer, food recalls due to deadly E. coli bacterial contamination: our American food system has gone terribly wrong. Recent public-health crises are raising urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is produced and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling author and investigative journalist David Kirby follows three families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by immense neighboring animal farms. In his thoroughly researched book, Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms and tracks their far-reaching fallout that contaminates our air, land, water, and food.
Praise