The modern savage : our unthinking decision to eat animals

Summary: "In the last four decades, food reformers have revealed the ecological and ethical problems of eating animals raised in industrial settings, turning what was once the boutique concern of radical eco-freaks into a mainstream movement. Although animal products are often labeled 'cage free,' 'free range,' and 'humanely raised,' can we trust these goods to be safe, sound, or ethical? In [this book] ... McWilliams pushes back against [what he sees as] the questionable moral standards of a largely omnivorous world and explores the 'alternative to the alternative'--not eating domesticated animals at all"--

Item details

ISBN: 9781250031198 (hbk.)
ISBN: 1250031192 (hbk.)
Physical Description: print
292 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2015.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The agenda -- Getting emotional -- The omnivore's contradiction -- Humane slaughter -- Backyard butchery -- Humane chicken -- Utopian beef -- Painful pork -- Our unthinking decision.