Reading and Media Resources: Animals in Agriculture

An examination of the growing turn against industrial farming practices and toward what has come to be known as the “compassionate carnivore” movement, this book examines in detail the cruelty...

Focused on the arguments for, communication strategies regarding, difficulties of, and joys found in, living with compassion for animals, particularly when it comes to diet. Hosted by Colleen Patrick...

Tackles the questions around whether animal advocates should appeal to human, self-interest, environmentalism or altruism, particularly when attempting to persuade people to stop eating animals and...

An examination of the fast-growing industrialized global meat industry and the implications for climate change, food insecurity, workers' rights, the treatment of animals, and other issues.

A still valuable exploration of the impact that modernization, deregulation, and consolidation of the meatpacking industry has had on workers, animals, and consumers. 

Examines the impacts that agriculture, particularly but not exclusively industrial animal agriculture, has on humans, animals, and the environment, and considers them specifically in the light of...

In considering the role meat has played, and has incorrectly been imagined to play, in the development of human civilization, also addresses the deeply entwined economic and political lives of humans...

Examines what vegans believe and how veganism corresponds to debates about sustainability, animal studies, the media, identity, intersectional politics, and activism, culminating in the argument that...

An upclose and non-narrated view of the life of Luma, a dairy cow on a British farm.

First published in 1964, this seminal work first revealed to the general public the modern practice of raising animals for food in conditions of intensive confinement and the cruelty inherent in these...