Global Meat Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry

• Other Authors: Winders, Bill (Editor), Ransom, Elizabeth (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2019
• Series: Food, Health, and the Environment
• Subjects: Environmental policy & protocols; Pollution & threats to the environment; Globalization; meat industry; aquaculture; corporations; poultry; pork; chicken; beef; fish; CAFOs; animal welfare; environment; labor; China; Rwanda; Ecuador; United States; climate change; solutions; consumption; meat processing; subsidies; agricultural subsidies; seafood; fisheries; livestock; industrial livestock; agribusiness; immigration; race; deportation; USDA; emissions; nutrition; animal rights; nutrition transition; dietary transition; sustainability; sustainable development; vegetarianism
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The growth of the global meat industry and the implications for climate change, food insecurity, workers' rights, the treatment of animals, and other issues. Global meat production and consumption have risen sharply and steadily over the past five decades, with per capita meat consumption almos...