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Originally published in 1999. The theme running through this collection of essays is that food quality and human health, the welfare of animals and the methods of farming, and the quality of the environment, go hand-in-hand.
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Editor's Note
Geoff Tansey Introduction
Joyce D'Silva Part 1: Conflicting Visions 1. The Absurdity of Modern Agriculture: From Chemical Fertilizers and Agropoisons to Biotechnology
José A. Lutzenberger and Melissa Halloway 2. Intensive Farming and Biotechnology: Saving People and Wildlife in the 21st Century
Dennis T. Avery Part 2: Whose Path To Follow? 3. American Agriculture's Ethical Crossroads
Michael W. Fox 4. Future Agriculture: Giant or Gentle?
Christine Townend 5. Barons of the New Millennium
John Vidal Part 3: Animal Welfare 6. Why I Do Not Eat Meat
Chris Mullin 7. An Agenda for Reform: Farm Animal Welfare in the European Union
Mark F. Watts 8. Campaigning for Change in the European Union
Philip Lymbery 9. Farm Animal Welfare in Central and Eastern Europe
Janice H. Cox 10. Factory Farming and the Meat Industry in India
Maneka Gandhi Part 4: Human Well-Being 11. Feeding the World a Healthy Diet
Geoffrey Cannon 12. Towards a Sustainable Food Policy
Tim Lang Part 5: Farming Threats And Opportunities 13. Genetic Engineering and the Threat to Farm Animals
Joyce D 'Silva 14. Genetic Engineering and Food Security
Julie Sheppard 15. The Global Contribution of Organic Farming
Patrick Holden 16. Beyond the Killing Fields: Working Towards A Vegetarian Future
Marie Gold Part 6: Trade, Welfare And Values 17. Trade Rules, Animal Welfare and the European Union
Peter Stevenson 18. Penalizing the Poor: GATT, WTO and the Developing World
Vandana Shiva 19. Sustainable Agriculture's Friend and Foe: the WTO
Hugh Raven 20. Multilateral Investment: an Agreement Too Far
Barry Coates 21. Human Values and World Trade
Atherton Martin. Conclusion: Where do we go from here?
Joyce D 'Silva
Summary
Originally published in 1999. The theme running through this collection of essays is that food quality and human health, the welfare of animals and the methods of farming, and the quality of the environment, go hand-in-hand.
