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CAFO: The Tragedy Of Industrial Animal Factories (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on September 21st, 2010 in Animal Issues, Books, Farming, Food & Drink, Videos.

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CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories

CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories is meant to offer a behind the scenes look at the factory farms that sadly produce so much of America’s food, such as meat, poultry, fish and dairy. The book edited Daniel Imhoff is said to provide a behind the scenes look at these operations, illustrating the conditions with more than 400 photographs and over 30 essays written by experts in the food, sustainability and animal rights industry such as Wendell Berry, Wenonah Hauter, Fred Kirschenmann, Anna Lappé, Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, and Matthew Scully.

CAFO contains a section which is meant to provide evidence to contradict everything that supporters of factory farming argue–from the notion that the operation results in cheaper, efficient, safer food to how factory farming in the answer to supplying a large community with adequate food.

Douglas Tompkins writes a forward to the book, which contains the following passage:

“In CAFO, we recognize the logic of industrialism applied to domesticated food animals. The result is a tragic, pathetic, and inhumane method of raising animals in factory farms to produce meat, milk, eggs, leather, fur, and nonessential culinary luxuries such as liver pâté. Living creatures are treated as machines, reduced to “units” in an assembly line of protein production by corporate food purveyors, with the individual animal’s suffering ignored. This is the kind of atrocity for which the word evil seems too meek and mild.”

A video trailer for CAFO can be viewed below.