Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the globe, often at the expense of human health. In Chickenizing Farms and Food, Ellen K. Silbergeld reveals the unsafe world of chickenization--big agriculture's top-down, contract-based factory farming system--and its negative consequences for workers, consumers, and the environment.
Drawing on her deep knowledge of and experience in environmental engineering and toxicology, Silbergeld examines the complex history of the modern...
Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the gl...