Book club selection (via Rose; session held 2 December 2018).
Interesting writing about the modern ag/food industry - so much has changed! Food incredibly cheap and plentiful. But animal cruelty questions; hormones and antibiotics; climate effects.
Regulatory capture as in any major industry.
The club discussion was interesting. How far to go with empathy for the animals - who are headed to slaughter no matter what - effect on low-income folks if practices are changed? How to quantify climate effect - supremely efficient food chain - is there a better alternative?
Author did a good job but occasionally strays into childish demonization of "profit."
Quite a bit of overlap with some of the themes from this book about Storm Lake, Iowa. Confinement set-ups certainly have changed rural Iowa even in my lifetime. And I beheaded a few chickens here and there without thinking twice about it.
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