Farmageddon – The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley May 26, 2014
Author Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott
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ISBN: 978-1-4088-4644-5
Publisher: Bloomsbury
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Website: http://www.bloomsbury.com
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When you are sitting down and tucking to that lovely piece of meat you bought for a really good price, have you ever considered just how the price is so cheap and meat so very, in so many ways ordinary. Or have you just, like most of us come to accept that meat tastes like that and well, what else can you expect to get for the price.
Not so, as Philip Lymbery goes on to tell in this amazing look and wakeup call into how the food that graces our tables daily is really produced.
He is saying loud and clear, wake up people and start to take an interest. Food has not always tasted like this and there is a very, very good reason why.
Mass production rules the world of agriculture in all aspects these days and has done for some considerable time. Bigger is better, leaner, faster, cleaner and can be produced all year round.
Cram more and more into less and less and feed the world. Don’t worry about the devastation created on the way through or the imbalance of nature, the hormone driven produce which is surely and definitely effecting the children of today’s society. That’s OK or is it?
We somehow or other realise eggs are mass produced as much has been written about egg farms and the dreadful practices used. We have all been horrified at the horse meat scandals of the past few years and the Chicken flu epidemics in Asia which saw millions of chickens slaughtered. But what, perhaps, did not sink in was these were all as a direct result of concentrated farming technics in use.
In the USA and Europe, and many other parts of the world, there are so few cows to be seen in the paddocks, pigs in the fields or sheep for meat out grazing because they have slowly been placed in the mega-factories created to produce more and more. The natural order has been well and truly disrupted.
The waste from these “factories” because that is what they really are, is being spread onto paddocks that can no longer absorb the massive quantities with the pollutant run off destroying streams, wildlife and the people in surrounding areas.
Think Lymbery is over reacting, well think again!
In this world, where the politicians globally are touting pollution, environmental concerns, sustainability, polar cap ice melt, recycling, the Kyoto principal and much more, there is very little real concern about the by-products and the destruction caused by the use of mega-farming production technics.