Chicken: A History from Farmyard to Factory

ISBN-13: 9781509525911 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 252 str.

Paul R. Josephson

Opis

"The irresistible rise and fall of the world's favourite farm animal"--

Recenzje

"Timely, important and forensically researched."Australian Book Review"This book swiftly and very readably outlines the century-long rise of [factory farming corporations] and the re-creation of the chicken into the world?s staple food. Josephson brings the various corporate and scientific personalities of his story alive, and despite the relatively breezy tone he?s chosen to adopt, he never flinches from the ugly reality of his subject."Open Letters Review"Wise and scrupulously referenced."The Spectator Magazine

Spis treści

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Egg First1 Chicken Culture2 Ecology and Industry3 Chicken as Machine4 Shit and Feathers5 Pecking and Protest6 DrumsticksEpilogue: Broiler ChernobylNotesIndex

O autorze

Paul R. Josephson is a leading historian of science, technology, and of Soviet history, and the author of thirteen books. His research has taken him all over the world, from Siberia to Brazil, and from meat packing plants to nuclear reactors, lumber mills to hydroelectric power stations, to soy, fish and chicken farms, and from rain forest to tundra. Josephson is Professor of Russian and Soviet History at Colby College.