Global Meat

Author : Bill Winders,Elizabeth Ransom
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262537735

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Global Meat by Bill Winders,Elizabeth Ransom Pdf

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 almost doubling since 1960. The expanding global meat industry, meanwhile, driven by new trade policies and fueled by government subsidies, is dominated by just a few corporate giants. Industrial farming—the intensive production of animals and fish—has spread across the globe. Millions of acres of land are now used for pastures, feed crops, and animal waste reservoirs. Drawing on concrete examples, the contributors to Global Meat explore the implications of the rise of a global meat industry for a range of social and environmental issues, including climate change, clean water supplies, hunger, workers' rights, and the treatment of animals. Three themes emerge from their discussions: the role of government and corporations in shaping the structure of the global meat industry; the paradox of simultaneous rising meat production and greater food insecurity; and the industry's contribution to social and environmental injustice. Contributors address such specific topics as the dramatic increase in pork production and consumption in China; land management by small-scale cattle farmers in the Amazon; the effect on the climate of rising greenhouse gas emissions from cattle raised for meat; and the tensions between economic development and animal welfare. Contributors Conner Bailey, Robert M. Chiles, Celize Christy, Riva C. H. Denny, Carrie Freshour, Philip H. Howard, Elizabeth Ransom, Tom Rudel, Mindi Schneider, Nhuong Tran, Bill Winders

Author : Bill Winders,Elizabeth Ransom
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262355391

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Global Meat by Bill Winders,Elizabeth Ransom Pdf

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 almost doubling since 1960. The expanding global meat industry, meanwhile, driven by new trade policies and fueled by government subsidies, is dominated by just a few corporate giants. Industrial farming—the intensive production of animals and fish—has spread across the globe. Millions of acres of land are now used for pastures, feed crops, and animal waste reservoirs. Drawing on concrete examples, the contributors to Global Meat explore the implications of the rise of a global meat industry for a range of social and environmental issues, including climate change, clean water supplies, hunger, workers' rights, and the treatment of animals. Three themes emerge from their discussions: the role of government and corporations in shaping the structure of the global meat industry; the paradox of simultaneous rising meat production and greater food insecurity; and the industry's contribution to social and environmental injustice. Contributors address such specific topics as the dramatic increase in pork production and consumption in China; land management by small-scale cattle farmers in the Amazon; the effect on the climate of rising greenhouse gas emissions from cattle raised for meat; and the tensions between economic development and animal welfare. Contributors Conner Bailey, Robert M. Chiles, Celize Christy, Riva C. H. Denny, Carrie Freshour, Philip H. Howard, Elizabeth Ransom, Tom Rudel, Mindi Schneider, Nhuong Tran, Bill Winders

Author : Maria-Aparecida Lopes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000414714

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Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market, c. 1850 to c. 1930 by Maria-Aparecida Lopes Pdf

This book examines the meat provision system of Rio de Janeiro from the 1850s to the 1930s. Until the 1920s, Rio was Brazil’s economic hub, main industrial city, and prime consumer market. Meat consumption was an indicator of living standards and a matter of public concern. The work unveils that in the second half of the nineteenth century, the city was well supplied with red meat. Initially, dwellers relied mostly on salted meat; then, in the latter decades of the 1800s, two sets of changes upgraded fresh meat deliveries. First, ranching expansion and transportation innovation in southeast and central-west Brazil guaranteed a continuous flow of cattle to Rio. Second, the municipal centralization of meat processing and distribution made its provision regular and predictable. By the early twentieth century, fresh meat replaced salted meat in the urban marketplace. This study examines these developments in light of national and global developments in the livestock and meat industries.

Author : Maria-Aparecida Lopes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000414721

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Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market, c. 1850 to c. 1930 by Maria-Aparecida Lopes Pdf

This book examines the meat provision system of Rio de Janeiro from the 1850s to the 1930s. Until the 1920s, Rio was Brazil’s economic hub, main industrial city, and prime consumer market. Meat consumption was an indicator of living standards and a matter of public concern. The work unveils that in the second half of the nineteenth century, the city was well supplied with red meat. Initially, dwellers relied mostly on salted meat; then, in the latter decades of the 1800s, two sets of changes upgraded fresh meat deliveries. First, ranching expansion and transportation innovation in southeast and central-west Brazil guaranteed a continuous flow of cattle to Rio. Second, the municipal centralization of meat processing and distribution made its provision regular and predictable. By the early twentieth century, fresh meat replaced salted meat in the urban marketplace. This study examines these developments in light of national and global developments in the livestock and meat industries.

Author : Danielle Nierenberg,Lisa Mastny
Publisher : Worldwatch Institute
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781878071774

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Happier Meals by Danielle Nierenberg,Lisa Mastny Pdf

This book documents the harmful effects of factory farming in both industrialized and developing countries and explains the range of problems it can cause. From transmission of disease and loss of livestock diversity to hazardous and unsanitary processing methods, it shows clearly why factory farming is an unsafe, inhumane, and ecologically disruptive form of meat production. Also shows how the individual can make a difference by supporting local, organic, or pasture-raised animal products.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781457817281

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Global Beef Trade: Effects of Animal Health, Sanitary, Food Safety, and Other Measures on U.S. Beef Exports, Inv. 332-488 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251335901

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Food Outlook – Biannual Report on Global Food Markets by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

As it was projected earlier in the year, while most markets were braced for a major global economic downturn, the food sector, including markets for bananas and tropical fruits, continued to display more resilience to the Covid-19 pandemic than other sectors. This report provides supply and demand forecasts for basic foodstuffs, fish and fishery products along with price analysis, policy information and a preliminary assessment of the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade in bananas and tropical fruits. The report’s special feature reviews recent trends in food imports bills and export earnings.Food Outlook is published by the Markets and Trade Division of FAO as part of the Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS). It is a biannual publication (November and June) focusing on developments in global food markets. Food Outlook maintains a close synergy with another major GIEWS publication, Crop Prospects and Food Situation, especially with regard to the coverage of cereals. Food Outlook is available in English. The summary section is also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.

Author : Jennifer Spencer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781855738621

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The International Meat Trade by Jennifer Spencer Pdf

With various crises experienced in the meat supply chain in the UK and elsewhere, seldom has the international meat industry been subject to so much attention as it is in the opening years of the 21st century. This major looseleaf represents the first comprehensive overview of the meat industry worldwide, and looks at production, consumption, prices, trade and policy profiles and developments in the key jurisdictions for each of the major product groups – cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. It provides a wealth of market statistics and analysis of trends, future outlook, threats and opportunities. This is an in-depth survey that no-one involved in the international meat marketplace can afford to be without. Covers prices, production, consumption, imports and exports and future trends Analyses the impact of the WTO and the EU on the trade Written by a well known industry insider with an unrivalled grasp of the issues involved

Author : Wang Hongguang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789819907304

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China's Food Security by Wang Hongguang Pdf

This book makes a systematic study of the history, current situation and trend of China's food security and the global food security. COVID-19 has triggered a world food crisis. Understanding the history, current situation and trend of China's and global food security is conducive to the rational arrangement of agricultural production, food storage, scheduling and import by management departments; it is conducive to the understanding of the situation of food supply and demand; it is conducive to the rational arrangement of production and operation planning. This book systematically studies the history and experience of China's food security, analyzes the 9 major problems facing the current food security, calculates the potential food production, puts forward the strategies and countermeasures for food security in the next 20 years and puts forward 4 strategies and 8 countermeasures for ensuring food security. This book will be of great value to scholars of international relations and sinologists, and has special relevance to United Nations sustainable development goal 2, eliminating hunger.

Author : OECD,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264010192

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OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2005 by OECD,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This eleventh edition of the OECD Agricultural Outlook published jointly with the FAO for the first time, provides an assessment of agricultural market prospects based on medium-term projections that extend to 2014 for production, consumption, trade and prices of major agricultural commodities.

Author : Arve Hansen,Karen Lykke Syse
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538142660

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Changing Meat Cultures by Arve Hansen,Karen Lykke Syse Pdf

"Industrialization has made the meat supply chain quick, global, and largely invisible. But, as this collection points out, meat is a hotly contested foodstuff for reasons of sustainability, health, animal welfare, ethics, and climate change"--

Author : Paul Shapiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501189098

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Clean Meat by Paul Shapiro Pdf

In this "important book that could just save your life" (Michael Greger, MD, bestselling author of How Not to Die), Paul Shapiro gives you a front-row seat for the wild story of the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat--real meat--without the animals. From the entrepreneurial visionaries to the scientists' workshops to the big business board-rooms--he details that quest for clean meat and that's "poised to revolutionize the business of food and agriculture," (Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric). Since the dawn of Homo sapiens some quarter million years ago, animals have satiated our species' desire for meat. But with a growing global popula-tion and demand for meat, eggs, dairy, leather, and more, raising such massive numbers of farm animals is woefully inefficient and takes an enormous toll on the planet, public health, and certainly the animals themselves. But what if we could have our meat and eat it, too? The next great scientific revolution is underway--discovering new ways to create enough food for the world's ever-growing, ever-hungry population. Enter "cellular agriculture"--real, actual meat grown from animal cells--as well as other clean foods that ditch animal cells altogether and are simply built from the molecule up. Whereas our ancestors domesticated wild animals into livestock, today we're beginning to domesticate their cells, leaving the animals out of the equation. This is "a fascinating look at the future of food and the innovators who are working to interrupt and reinvent the food system" (Ann Veneman, former executive director of UNICEF and former US Secretary of Agriculture).

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251346082

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OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2021–2030 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

The Agricultural Outlook 2021-2030 is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It brings together the commodity, policy and country expertise of both organisations as well as input from collaborating member countries to provide an annual assessment of the prospects for the coming decade of national, regional and global agricultural commodity markets. The publication consists of 11 Chapters; Chapter 1 covers agricultural and food markets; Chapter 2 provides regional outlooks and the remaining chapters are dedicated to individual commodities.

Author : Richard Peet,Paul Robbins,Michael Watts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136904325

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Global Political Ecology by Richard Peet,Paul Robbins,Michael Watts Pdf

The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies. This critical volume draws together contributions from twenty-five leading intellectuals in the field. It begins with an introductory chapter that introduces the readers to political ecology and summarizes the books main findings. The following seven sections cover topics on the political ecology of war and the disaster state; fuelling capitalism: energy scarcity and abundance; global governance of health, bodies, and genomics; the contradictions of global food; capital’s marginal product: effluents, waste, and garbage; water as a commodity, a human right, and power; the functions and dysfunctions of the global green economy; political ecology of the global climate, and carbon emissions. This book contains accounts of the main currents of thought in each area that bring the topics completely up-to-date. The individual chapters contain a theoretical introduction linking in with the main themes of political ecology, as well as empirical information and case material. Global Political Ecology serves as a valuable reference for students interested in political ecology, environmental justice, and geography.

Author : Wilson J. Warren
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781609385552

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Meat Makes People Powerful by Wilson J. Warren Pdf

From large-scale cattle farming to water pollution, meat— more than any other food—has had an enormous impact on our environment. Historically, Americans have been among the most avid meat-eaters in the world, but long before that meat was not even considered a key ingredient in most civilizations’ diets. Labor historian Wilson Warren, who has studied the meat industry for more than a decade, provides this global history of meat to help us understand how it entered the daily diet, and at what costs and benefits to society. Spanning from the nineteenth century to current and future trends, Warren walks us through the economic theory of food, the discovery of protein, the Japanese eugenics debate around meat, and the environmental impact of livestock, among other topics. Through his comprehensive, multifaceted research, he provides readers with the political, economic, social, and cultural factors behind meat consumption over the last two centuries. With a special focus on East Asia, Meat Makes People Powerful reveals how national governments regulated and oversaw meat production, helping transform virtually vegetarian cultures into major meat consumers at record speed. As more and more Americans pay attention to the sources of the meat they consume, Warren’s compelling study will help them not only better understand the industry, but also make more informed personal choices. Providing an international perspective that will appeal to scholars and nutritionists alike, this timely examination will forever change the way you see the food on your plate.