Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery (Author)
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ISBN: 9781408846445
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing, 27 Jan. 2014
Paperback, 448 pages
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.
* Our health is under threat: half of all antibiotics used worldwide (rising to 80 per cent in US) are routinely given to industrially farmed animals, contributing to the emergence of deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs