After achieving best-selling status in trade paperback, a handsome new format edition of this important work by Australia's Peter Singer.In 1980 Peter Singer and Jim Mason published Animal Factories, a landmark work on the harm factory farming inflicts on the environment, rural communities and animals. A generation later, in The Ethics of What We Eat, the pair embark on a remarkable journey to investigate the foods we eat. Their findings are both shocking and illuminating.Their adventure begins at the dinner tables of three families with differing tastes and shopping habits. The authors scrutinise methods of production for every food group, including the factory farming of cattle and pigs, of chicken and fish, as well as the recent increase of GM foods w available from our supermarket shelves.They also explore the burgeoning organic food movement, the fair trade movement, the pros and cons of buying locally, and how it is possible to be an ethical consumer in the twenty-first century.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Text Publishing Co, The Text Publishing Company
ISBN-10
1921145870
ISBN-13
9781921145872
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94770644
Product Key Features
Author
Peter Singer, Jim Mason
Format
B-Format Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Issues, Services & Welfare
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
256g
Height
199mm
Width
129mm
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication
29/10/2007
Place of Publication
Melbourne
Spine
20mm
Author Biography
Authors Bio, Not Available
Country of Publication
Australia
Genre
Social Issues, Services & Welfare
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