SOSC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intensive Animal Farming, Political Ecology
25 Nov 2017
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Topic: inequality and the global burden of factory farming: perspectives from geography and political ecology. In recent times, there has been ever-increasing appetite of meat consumption globally. Some years back, people were utilizing more of crops than meat and hence emergence of the term meatification". Statistics has that the amount of meat consumption has been increasing at an alarming rate. In his book, the ecological hoofprint: the global burden of industrial. Livestock, tony weis records that there is no stricken balance of meat consumed and the crop- food. He further articulates that the need for meat is increasing as people tend to be richer. People in africa consume less meat compared to those in us. Us and asia where us takes the lead. The increasing need of meat consumption triggers the need to rear animals to satisfy the market. For instance, modern methods of rearing animals have to be adopted.
