The Sustainability Secret : Rethinking Our Diet to Transform the World
The 2014 groundbreaking documentary Cowspiracy presents shocking truths about the effects of animal agriculture on the planet. One of the leading causes of deforestation, rainforest destruction, greenhouse gas production, water consumption and pollution, habitat loss, species extinction, ocean dead-zones, topsoil erosion, and a host of other environmental ills, animal agriculture is the biggest issue facing the planet today and one of environmentalism's best-kept secrets. Filled with anecdotes, interviews with the filmmakers and contributors, unabridged transcripts from the film, material that
1 online resource (191 pages)
9781608878215, 160887821X
1088319929
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue: Waking Up; Chapter One: A Journey Toward Truth; Chapter Two: Water: An Infinite Resource; Chapter Three: Happy Farms: "I Love Animals-That's Why I'm in the Meat Business"; Chapter Four: Factory Farms: Standard Industry Practice; Chapter Five: Oceans: The Circulatory System of Our Planet; Chapter Six: Rain Forests and Biodiversity: Sawing Off the Branch We Stand On; Chapter Seven: Activists, Governments, and Corporations: Shutting Down a Movement Chapter Eight: Ethics, Dairy, and Eggs: Choosing Life Over DeathChapter Nine: Health: Skip the Middle Animal; Chapter Ten: Veganic (Stockfree) Agriculture: Feeding a Growing World; Chapter Eleven: Transforming the World, One Meal at a Time; Recommended Reading and Viewing List; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index