Jody Emel and Harvey Neo: Political ecologies of meat Routledge, New York, 2015, 368 pp, ISBN 978-0-415-73695-4

• Published in: Agriculture and Human Values Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 739 - 740
• Main Author: Bruckner, Heide K.
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.09.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agricultural Economics; Animal care; Animal welfare; Breeding of animals; Case studies; Cattle; Climate change; Education; Environmental justice; Ethics; Evolutionary Biology; Geography; History; Knowledge; Livestock; Livestock industry; Materialism; Meat industry; Philosophy; Political ecology; Political economy; Trends; Values; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science

Political Ecologies of Meat by Jody Emel and Harvey Neo is reviewed. Considering the frighteningly rapid pace of global livestock intensification, critical scholarship on the socio-ecological implications of the meat industry could not be timelier. Jody Emel and Harvey Neo's edited volume makes...