Global Meat: Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry

Global Meat: Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry is the sixteenth book in the Food, Health, and the Environment series. The series explores the global and local dimensions of food systems and the issues of access, social, environmental, and food justice, and com- munity well-being. Books in the series focus on how and where food is grown, manufactured, distributed, sold, and consumed. They address questions of power and control, social movements and organizing strategies, and the health, environmental, social, and economic factors embedded in food-system choices and outcomes. As this book demonstrates, the focus is not only on food security and well-being but also on economic, political, and cultural factors and regional, state, national, and international policy decisions. Food, Health, and the Environment books therefore provide a window onto the public debates, alternative and existing discourses, and multidisciplinary perspectives that have made food systems and their connections to health and the environment critically important subjects of study and for social and policy change.