The end of animal farming : how scientists, entrepreneurs, and activists are building an animal-free food system / Jacy Reese.

ISBN:

9780807019450

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Author:

Reese, Jacy, 1992-, author.

Personal Author:

Reese, Jacy, 1992-, author.

Physical Description:

xvi, 214 pages ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Introduction -- The expanding moral circle -- State of the movement -- Silicon Valley's first bite -- How plant-based can take over -- The world's first cultured hamburger -- The psychology of animal-free food -- Evidence-based social change -- Broadening horizons -- The expanding moral circle, revisited.

Subject Term:

Food animals -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Food supply -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Meat substitutes -- Economic aspects.

Format:

Regular print

Publication Date:

2018

Publication Information:

Boston :

Beacon Press,

[2018]

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A bold yet realistic vision of how technology and social change are creating a food system in which we no longer use animals to produce meat, dairy, or eggs.

Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals brought widespread attention to the disturbing realities of factory farming. The End of Animal Farming pushes this conversation forward by outlining a strategic roadmap to a humane, ethical, and efficient food system in which slaughterhouses are obsolete--where the tastes of even the most die-hard meat eater are satisfied by innovative food technologies like cultured meats and plant-based protein. Social scientist and animal advocate Jacy Reese analyzes the social forces leading us toward the downfall of animal agriculture, the technology making this change possible for the meat-hungry public, and the activism driving consumer demand for plant-based and cultured foods.

Reese contextualizes the issue of factory farming--the inhumane system of industrial farming that 95 percent of farmed animals endure--as part of humanity's expanding moral circle. Humanity increasingly treats nonhuman animals, from household pets to orca whales, with respect and kindness, and Reese argues that farmed animals are the next step. Reese applies an analytical lens of "effective altruism," the burgeoning philosophy of using evidence-based research to maximize one's positive impact in the world, in order to better understand which strategies can help expand the moral circle now and in the future.

The End of Animal Farming is not a scolding treatise or a prescription for an ascetic diet. Reese invites readers--vegan and non-vegan--to consider one of the most important and transformational social movements of the coming decades.

Author Notes

Jacy Reese is the research director and cofounder of Sentience Institute, a nonprofit think tank researching the most effective strategies for expanding humanity's moral circle. He previously served as board chair and a researcher at Animal Charity Evaluators. Reese's writing has appeared in Vox , Salon , and the Huffington Post , and he has presented his research to academic and nonprofit audiences in fifteen countries.

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Reese (research director and cofounder, Sentience Inst.) states forthrightly that this book is about how we can solve problems, and damages, associated with animal farming. He reviews the gains made toward this end and stresses that the success is owing to concern, not solely about the purity of our foods but also about caring for the animals. Nine chapters offer a history of humans' concerns for animal welfare and the limited success of animal-free goods; the technology of cellular agriculture, where meat, eggs, and dairy are grown with cell cultures; and strategies of activism and social change so that the movement becomes widespread. The author's overriding theme is tied to the belief in humanity's moral circle, which requires members to treat all living beings, including animals, with respect, care, and kindness. Numerous stories and anecdotes, along with statistics and citations of successful companies that have adopted animal-free food, comprise this fact-filled book, which will appeal to readers' hearts, as well as their guts. VERDICT Recommended for all environmental/agricultural collections-Patricia Ann Owens, formerly at Illinois Eastern Community Coll., Mt. Carmel © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Introduction	p. ix
1 The Expanding Moral Circle	p. 1
2 Emptying the Cages	p. 17
3 The Rise of Vegan Tech	p. 38
4 How Plant-Based Will Take Over	p. 57
5 The World's First Cultured Hamburger	p. 73
6 The Psychology of Animal-Free Food	p. 95
7 Evidence-Based Social Change	p. 113
8 Broadening Horizons	p. 129
9 The Expanding Moral Circle, Revisited	p. 145
Acknowledgments	p. 165
Notes	p. 167
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 203

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