The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
2010, Watershed Media
Available in a Japanese language edition.
The CAFO Reader is a companion book to the larger photo-essay volume, CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories. It is possibly the most powerful indictment of factory farming ever compiled, with essays from 44 of the world’s leading experts. It also offers a vision for a food system that leaves behind the horrific 20th century model of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. The CAFO Reader brings the tragic world of industrial food production into sharp focus with essays on every facet of factory farming: health, environment, animal welfare, labor, politics, economics, and so on. It has become a relied-upon resource for activists, food policy makers, academics, the media and the general public for many years. This project was a follow-up to the highly successful project Fatal Harvest, published in 2002.