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Farming, Food and Nature: Respecting Animals, People and the Environment by Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of contributors 10 Foreword 22 1 Introduction 24 PART I: Setting the planetary scene 28 2 Livestock and the boundaries of our planet 30 PART II: The impacts of livestock production on the natural world 34 3 The great disappearing act 36 4 Biodiversity, extinction and livestock production 53 5 Bees versus robots 61 6 Conservation and the sacred cow 64 7 Protected Cerrado and sustainable diets: complementary pathways towards a more conscious appetite 69 8 The growing demand for fish: impacts on the environment, animal welfare and food security 78 PART III: The impact of livestock production on people 84 9 Livestock production and human rights or how the chicken came home to roost 86 10 The role of livestock in developing countries 92 PART IV: The significance of sentience in wild and farmed animals 98 11 Beyond words: what animals think and feel 100 12 Creatures of the factory farm 109 13 The scientific basis for action on animal welfare and other aspects of sustainability 116 14 Green and pleasant farming: cattle, sheep and habitat 124 PART V: Solutions for people, planet and animals 130 15 Agroecology

Author

Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna

Published

2018

Language

EN