Must read!

This should be mandatory reading for everyone. It is a total eye-opener, even for convinced vegetarians and vegans and even for readers of 'Eating Animals'. Very well written and narrated, it is well-structured in thematic chapters and quite comprehensive, dealing both with animal farming (cattle, poultry, fish...) and with crops.

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Worth persevering with...

The factual information in this book is important and at times shocking, and the author gives good justification for his reasoning and helpful tips and suggestions for more sustainable consumption.

I did find some of the writing eyebrow raising in its privileged outlook and old fashioned somewhat colonial turns of phrase. This was enhanced by the affected accent of the narrator whose 'interesting' pronunciation choices grated on me to the point of wanted to just turn the whole thing off and find a summary of the facts. I also don't think the writer could have mentioned he was the CEO of Compassion in World Farming any more if he'd tried!

However, there was no denying the facts were compelling and I just hope that the way they are presented doesn't turn people off the book's central, and crucial, message that regardless of whether or not you eat meat or care about animal welfare, factory farming is not sustainable for our health or our planet.

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Listen to this if you want to become vegan

This is a terrifying but believable account of the impact of intensive farming. Everyone should know this story.

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Just missing the final leap

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Some fascinating and worrying stories from behind the scenes of the meat and dairy industry, but for all the good he does, I can't help but wonder why he doesn't avoid consuming animal products altogether.

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Excellent study of what we're eating

Writer does a top notch job of exposing what we actually eating. In most cases it is not even close to what companies would have us believe. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to live a healthy lifestyle.

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Great insight

Really insightful look into someone thenproblems the world is facing in terms of farming and food.

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Good listen!!

Very informative, and eye opening to the farming practices carried out around the world.

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Raw, brutal and sad.

This is a raw and brutal account of modern day consumption and the impact it is having on living creatures and the earth at large. If you are seeking inspiration to become a vegetarian, or looking for reasons to support a vegan lifestyle, then here it is. Whilst I am neither vegetarian or vegan, it does open one’s eyes to just how ludicrous modern farming has become to satisfy a greedy, consumerist lifestyle. It really highlights the fact that perhaps the true animals are ourselves and not the livestock we are abusing.

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Solid read on the impact of "Cheap Food"

Insightful, interesting and well delivered. Not obtrusive on what you should consume, however gives great insights into the long term damage of intensive farming, our cheap quick diets and the community damage worldwide

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The power is with the consumer to make a change.

Phenomenal book, which is more than food for thought.

The industrial food system are geared to produce food in volume, regardless of quality. The profit for these large companies comes before any regard to people’s health.

It is so important now to chose the right food. The old saying of “You are what you eat is eat” is so true.

How often have we been mislead with labels saying farm fresh, corn fed? It tells us nothing about the caged animals that this food comes from.

I like the quotes used in the final chapter by Albert Schweitzer “Man has lost the capacity to see and forestall”

To avoid Farmageddon we have to take onboard these words of Schweitzer as if something is not done soon there will be a deeply diminished countryside, a surge in disease, unhealthy food and growing world hunger.

The growing zoonotics, global epidemics and pandemics will be routed in these industrial factory farms where antibiotics, growth hormones, genetically modified grain are given out with feed. Not only is the food a health risk to all but the waste from these factories is destroying our environment too.

One planet one health.

We need animals back on the farm and outside rather than in these industrial farming factories.

We have an enormous power to make a change as consumers.... we eat three times a day so there is more than one choice a day to make a positive change.

This book shows us.....We can feed the world without a cost to the environment.
And.......You have that power to make a change right now.

Read or listen to this book now.

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