Suggested Reading and Media: Animals in Agriculture

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...

A collection of essays by the founder of United Poultry Concerns, detailing 30 years of activism on behalf of chickens and other domesticated fowl. In addition to personal stories, the book highlights...

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...

Documentary about the undercover investigation of the Wiles Hog Farm by the Humane Farming Association, and the resulting trial on charges of cruelty to animals.

Analysis by two experts in agricultural economics of the costs of improving animal welfare in modern farming.

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...

A highly readable nonfiction work about modern animal agriculture from the well-known novelist, including first hand descriptions of animal facilities and an intimate account of the author’s own...

An accessible analysis of the economics of animal food production, including a critical view of the substantial "externalized" costs that, it is argued, the animal food system imposes on taxpayers...

Making use of drones, as well as hidden and handheld cameras, this documentary reports on the current realities of modern animal agriculture, and places these observations within a context of...