Description:
This book explores the critical intersection of contemporary livestock production and some of today's most urgent challenges: the spread of emerging infectious diseases, the sustainability of food systems, and the contested promises of One Health.
Review Quotes:
"This groundbreaking and accessible book provides an intensive examination into how the global livestock industry has reconfigured threats to the health of people and the planet. It deftly bridges critical gaps in understanding by integrating diverse disciplinary perspectives on the relationship between meat production, disease emergence, and antimicrobial resistance. It is an essential read for academics, policy makers and advocates involved in transforming food systems to secure healthy futures for all."
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Global Justice and Development, Trent University, Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London
"From poultry production in the Norwegian countryside to China's mega pig units in Argentina and the social movements emerging in response, this exciting collection brings together new empirical evidence, practical examples and conceptual tools to equip anyone, but especially multi and interdisciplinary university students, to understand urgent contemporary problems of global health, food systems and ecological sustainability, and organize to meet the challenges ahead."
Professor Melissa Leach, Executive Director, Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI), Honorary Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College