Edited book
Industrial farm animal production, the environment, and public health
Johns Hopkins University Press
2024
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Abstract
"The rapid-and relatively recent-concentration of food animal production into factory farms makes meat plentiful and cheap, but this type of agriculture comes at a great cost to human health and the environment. In Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health, editors James Merchant and Robert Martin bring together public health experts to explore the most critical topics related to industrial farm animal production. The environmental impacts of these concentrated animal-feeding operations endanger the health of farm and meatpacking workers, neighbors, and surrounding communities. Factory farms create public health hazards such as antibiotic-resistant bacteria due to the overuse of antibiotics in livestock, as well as water polluted with nitrates, microbes, and other harmful chemicals. Despite the clear need for greater worker protection and oversight to mitigate the environmental harms of these practices, factory farms are notoriously difficult to regulate. Industrial animal operations are located predominantly in rural areas, often next to poor communities and communities of color. Food companies have driven independent producers nearly to extinction, sapped the economic vitality of rural communities, and amassed sweeping political influence at both the state and national levels to effectively prevent mitigation efforts. Essays in this volume cover pertinent topics such as the history, structure, and trends in the factory farming industry; water and air pollution; infectious disease health effects; community and social impacts; environmental justice and sustainable agriculture; and the impacts of COVID-19 among meatpacking workers"--Provided by publisher.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Industrial farm animal production, the environment, and public health
- Creators
- James A. Merchant (Editor)Robert Martin (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Edited book
- Table of contents
- Foreword / by Senator Tom Harkin -- 1. Industry history, structure, and trends / Nicolette Hahn Niman and Bill Niman -- 2. Water pollution--regional, national, and global impacts / Christopher Jones -- 3. Air pollution I: occupational, community, regional, and global health effects / James A. Merchant, Jerald L. Schnoor, Wayne T. Sanderson, D'Ann L. Williams, and David Osterberg -- 4. Air pollution II: nuisance, quality of life, and behavioral health impacts / James A. Merchant, Kendall M. Thu, Christopher D. Heaney, and David Osterberg -- 5. Infectious disease health effects / Tara C. Smith and Gregory C. Gray -- 6. Social and community impacts / Aimee Imlay and Loka Ashwood -- 7. Environmental justics / Virginia T. Guidry, Jessica Rinsky, and Sarah Hatcher -- 8. Industrial farm animal production and the law / N. William Hines -- 9. Packing plant worker health effects: impact of COVID-19 / Debbie Berkowitz and James A. Merchant -- 10. Superior technologies / Viney P. Aneja, Matias Vanotti, Ariel A. Szogi, and Gudigopuram Reddy -- 11. Toward sustainable agriculture / John E. Ikerd -- 12. Still a jungle out there: advocacy to mitigate environmental and public health impacts of industrial meat / Tom Philpott.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press; Baltimore
- ISBN
- 9781421450407; 1421450402
- Format
- xxviii, 400 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 23 cm
- Number of pages
- xxviii, 400 pages
- Language
- English
- Date copyrighted
- 2024
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984721114002771
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