The CAFO reader: the tragedy of industrial animal factories

Foreword / Douglas R. Tompkins

Introduction / Daniel Imhoff

pt. 1. The pathological mind set of the CAFO

Introduction : from agrarianism to industrialism

Farm factories : the end of animal husbandry / Bernard E. Rollin

Fear factories : the case for compassionate conservatism

for animals / Matthew Scully

Cold evil : the ideologies of industrialism / Andrew Kimbrell

Renewing husbandry : the mechanization of agriculture is fast coming to an end / Wendell Berry

Man, the paragon of animals? Questioning our assumptions about evolution / Christopher Manes

pt. 2. Myths of the CAFO

Myth : industrial food is cheap

Myth : industrial food is efficient

Myth : industrial food is healthy

Myth : CAFOs are farms, not factories

Myth : CAFOs are good for rural communities

Myth : industrial food benefits the environment and wildlife

Myth : industrial food can feed the world

Myth : CAFO manure is a benign resource

pt. 3. Inside the CAFO

Introduction : what the industry doesn't want us to know

Power steer : on the trail of industrial beef / Michael Pollan

Boss hog : the rapid rise of industrial swine / Jeff Tietz

Watching the chickens pass by : the grueling monotony of the disassembly line / Steve Striffler

The milk of human unkindness : industrialization and the supercow / Anne Mendelson

Size matters : the meat industry and the corruption of Darwinian economics / Steve Bjerklie

Floating hog farms : industrial aquaculture is spoiling the aquatic commons? / Ken Stier, Emmett Hopkins

pt. 4. The loss of diversity

Introduction : extinction is forever

Old MacDonald had diversity : the role of traditional breeds in a dynamic agricultural future / Donald E. Bixby

Squeezed to the last drop : the loss of family farms / Tom Philpott

Assault on nature : CAFOs and biodiversity loss / George Wuerthner

Narrowing of poultry breeds

Traditional versus industrial beef and dairy cattle

Traditional swine and lean hogs

Demise of the family farmer

Loss of individual farms

pt. 5. Hidden costs of CAFOs

Introduction : economists have forgotten how to add

From farms to factories : pillaging the commons / Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Bad meat : deregulation makes eating a high-risk behavior / Eric Schlosser

CAFOs are in everyone's backyard : industrial agriculture, democracy, and the future / Kendall Thu

Paying the polluters : animal factories feast on taxpayer subsidies / Martha Noble

Sliced and diced : the labor you eat / Christopher D. Cook

Diet for a hot planet : livestock and climate change / Anna Lappé

pt. 6. Technological takeover

Introduction : from farms to high-tech

Antibiotic drug abuse : CAFOs are squandering vital human medicines / Leo Horrigan, Jay Graham, Shawn McKenzie

Franken food : livestock cloning and the quest for industrial perfection / Rebecca Spector

Genetically engineered farm animals : a brazen effort to make nature fit the industrial mold / Jaydee Hanson

Nuclear meat : using radiation and chemicals to make food "safe" / Wenonah Hauter

pt. 7. Putting the CAFO out to pasture

Introduction : toward a humane, equitable, and sustainable food system

Toward sustainability : moving from energy dependence to energy exchange / Fred Kirschenmann

The good farmer : an agrarian approach to animal agriculture / Peter Kaminsky

Changing the law : the road to reform / Paige Tomaselli, Meredith Niles

A chef speaks out : making the case for taste / Dan Barber

Dismantlement : a movement to topple industrial animal agriculture / Erik Marcus

The farmer's bind : scaling up for a different kind of agriculture / Becky Weed

Healing : restoring health, wealth, and respect to food and farming / Joel Salatin

Vote with your fork : it's time for citizens to take back the food system / Daniel Imhoff

Know where your food comes from

What you can do

What policy makers can do

Contributors

Resources

A glossary of CAFO terms and euphemisms

Selected bibliography.