Corporate Farming
(see also Family Farming, Toxic Waste & Hunger & Famine)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Raising Farm Subsidies, US Widens International Rift. Elizabeth Becker, NY Times (6/15/02).
The Ethics of Eating. Rich Heffern, National Catholic Reporter (5/24/02).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Compassion in World Farming. Campaign to end factory farming of animals & long distance transport.
Factory Farming (Wisconsin Stewardship Network).
Families Against Rural Messes (FARM).
Organization for Competitive Markets.
Rachel's Environment & Health News.
Sand Mountain Concerned Citizens.
UN Food & Agricultural Organization (FAO).
In the Library: Articles
Specter, Michael. “The extremist,” New Yorker (4/14/03):52-67.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Arax, Mark & Rick Wartzman. The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire (NY: PublicAffairs, 2003).
Bovard, James. The Farm Fiasco (San Francisco: ICS, 1989).
Davidson, Osha Gray. Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto (NY: Free Press, 1990).
Dyer, Joel. Harvest of Rage. Why Oklahoma City is Only the Beginning (Boulder: Westview, 1997). Connects rural American dissidence to systematic & purposeful destruction of small farms by government, agro-conglomerates & banks since Adaptive Program for Agriculture was drawn up by Committee for Economic Development in 1962.
Goering, Peter; Helena Norberg-Hodge & John Page [1993] From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture (2nd rev. ed.; NY: Zed, 2001).
Goodman, David. Globalizing Food: Agrarian Questions & Global Restructuring (NY: Routledge, 1997).
Gorelick, Steven. Small is Beautiful, Big is Subsidized: How Our Taxes Contribute to Social & Environmental Breakdown (Dartington, Devon: International Society for Ecology & Culture, 1998).
Hart, John Fraser. The Changing Scale of American Agriculture (Charlottesville: U. of Virginia, 2003).
Johnsen, Carolyn. Raising a Stink: The Struggle over Factory Hog Farms in Nebraska (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 2003).
Kimbrell, Andrew (ed.) Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture (Washington: Island, 2002).
Kneen, Brewster. Invisible Giant: Cargill & Its International Strategies (London: Pluto, 2002).
Knudsen, Odin; John Nash et al. Redefining Government's Role in Agriculture in the Nineties (Washington: World Bank, 1990).
Magdoff, Fred; John Bellamy Foster & Frederick H. Buttel (eds.) Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, & the Environment (NY: Monthly Review, 2000).
Mason, Jim & Peter Singer. Animal Factories: What Agribusiness is Doing to the Family Farm, the Environment, & Your Health (NY: Harmony, 1990).
Pringle, Peter. Food Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto. The Promises & Perils of the Biotech Harvest (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2003).
Ross, Robert L. Mission Possible: The Story of the Latin American Agribusiness Development Corporation (LADD) (New Brunswick NJ: Transaction, 2000).
Sheingate, Adam D. The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions & Interest Group Power in the US, France, & Japan (Princeton: Princeton U, 199?).
Shiva, Vandana. Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Boston: South End, 199?)
Various authors. Factory Farming: The Experiment that Failed (Washington: Animal Welfare Institute, 1987).
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CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Factory Farms" [1991], dir. Harvey Richards, ?m.
"Hungry for Profit" [1984], dir. Robert Richter, 87m.