Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry
Author: Karen Davis
ISBN-nr: 1570672296
Category: Factory Farming
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Now in a newly updated and expanded revised edition, "Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry" is an exploration of how chickens are handled in today's livestock farms. Focusing on the imporatnce of animal rights as well as environmental concerns, author Karen Davis calls out the industry as cruel and wasteful, and possibly endangering the world's chicken eaters. Arguing for a more vegetarian world, "Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs" is an intriguing look at the world of modern chicken farming.
Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry
by Karen Davis
Book Publishing Company (TN); Revised edition (March 10, 2009)
224 pages
After introducing readers to a brief history of poultry farming and the natural and social lives of chickens, Davis focuses on the egg and broiler industries, primarily in the United States. This is followed by a chapter on slaughter, which provides more gruesome detail than some readers will find comfortable. In the final chapter, vegetarianism, especially veganism, is promoted as the only effective solution.
The original edition of this book exposed modern poultry practices, revealing the tragedy chickens endure through the lens of an industry that brutally processes them without remorse. Newly revised, Karen Davis again looks at the horrific conditions these animals face - in spite of free-range and cage-free claims - and at the heightened risks consumers face living in a world in which avian influenza, food poisoning, global warming, and genetic engineering interface with the expansion of poultry production and consumption.
The author offers a compelling argument for adopting a compassionate, plant-based cuisine as an alternative to the inhumane practices the industry offers. This book will help both flextarians and non-vegetarians alike understand the real price of their breakfast or dinner and may provide the catalyst need to change warfare to welfare.
Karen is the author of several books including A Home for Henny (a children’s book published by UPC); Instead of Chicken, Instead of Turkey: A Poultryless ‘Poultry’ Potpourri (a cookbook published by the Book Publishing Co.); Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry (Book Publishing Co.); More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality (Lantern Books); and The Holocaust and the Henmaid’s Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities (Lantern Books) and finally The New Revised Edition of Karen’s landmark book Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs
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