Meat
(see also Food Poisoning & Corporate Farming)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
A Century after 'Jungle,' Dangers Remain. Sharon Cohen, Boston Globe (4/22/06).
The Beef with Wolves. Jessica Lyons, AlterNet (1/6/03).
The Ethics of Eating. Rich Heffern, National Catholic Reporter (5/24/02).
Dispelling the Cowboy Myth. Tim Lengreth, EarthSave (n.d.).
What About Grass-Fed Beef? John Robbins, Food Revolution (n.d.)
Why Oprah Was Right, the Texas Cattlemen Were Wrong, & the Crisis Facing the American Hamburger Isn't Over. Jim Motavalli, EMagazine (5-6/98).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
American Meat Institute. Industry's mouthpiece.
International Society for Animal Rights.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Rachel's Environment & Health News.
In the Library: Articles
Sawy, Nada. "Activists push farm industry for slaughterhouse changes," Santa Cruz Sentinel (7/7/03):A-10.
Specter, Michael. “The extremist,” New Yorker (4/14/03):52-67.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Adams, Carol J. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (NY: Continuum, 2000).
Carnell, Paul. Alternatives to Factory Farming (London: Earth Resources Research, 1983).
Coe, Sue. Dead Meat (NY: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995).
Collard, Andree & Joyce Contrucci. Rape of the Wild: Men's Violence Against Animals & the Earth (Bloomington: Indiana U., 1989).
Compa, Lance A. Blood, Sweat & Fear: Workers' Rights in US Meat & Poultry Plants (NY: Human Rights Watch, 2004).
Davis, Karen. Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry (Summertown TN: Book Publishing, 1996).
Eisnitz, Gail. Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect & Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry (NY: Prometheus, 2006).
Fenichell, Stephen & Lawrence S. Charfoos. Daughters at Risk: A Personal DES History (NY: Doubleday, 1981).
Gold, Mark. Assault & Battery: What Factory Farming Means for Humans & Animals (London: Pluto, 1983).
Johnson, Andrew. Factory Farming (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991).
Lyman, Howard with Glen Merzer. Mad Cowboy: The Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (NY: Scribner, 1998).
Marcus, Alan I. Cancer from Beef: DEI, Federal Food Regulation, & Consumer Confidence (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1994).
Marcus, Eric. Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, & Money (?: Brio,
Mason, Jim & Peter Singer. Animal Factories: What Agribusiness is Doing to the Family Farm, the Environment, & Your Health (NY: Harmony, 1990).
Orenberg, Cynthia Laitman. DES: The Complete Story (NY: St. Martin's, 1981).
Rifkin, Jeremy. Beyond Beef: The Rise & Fall of the Cattle Culture (NY: Dutton, 1992).
Robbins, John. Diet for a New America (Walpole NH: Stillpoint, 1987).
__________. May All Be Fed: Diet for a New World (NY: W. Morrow, 1992).
Schell, Orville. Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones & the Pharmaceutical Farm (NY: Random House, 1984).
Skaggs, Jimmy M. Prime Cut: Livestock Raising & Meatpacking in the US, 1607-1983 (College Station TX: Texas A&M, 1986).
Striffler, Steve. Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food (New Haven: Yale, 2005).
Wade, Louise Carroll. Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, & Environs in the 19th C. (Urbana: U. Illinois, 1987).
Ziegler, P. Thomas. The Meat We Eat (Danville IL: Interstate, 1948).
In the Library: Fiction
Ozeki, Ruth. My Year of Meats (NY: Penguin, 1998).
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle [1903] (NY: Modern Library, 2002).
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Diet for a New America" [1991], dir. ?, 60m. From KCET Video.