The ecological hoofprint the global burden of industrial livestock by tony weis the ecological hoofprint examines the industrialization of livestock production on a world scale which is the driving force behind the phenomenal and uneven increase in global meat consumption and the momentous but greatly underappreciated implications of this trajectory the central argument of the book is that industrial livestock production and the meatification of diets constitute a large and . The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demandfollowing his previous ground breaking book the global food economy tony weis explains clearly why the growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical . The ecological hoofprint the global burden of industrial livestock english edition ebook weis tony amazonde kindle shop wahlen sie ihre cookie einstellungen wir verwenden cookies und ahnliche tools um ihr einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern um unsere dienste anzubieten um zu verstehen wie die kunden unsere dienste nutzen damit wir verbesserungen vornehmen konnen und um werbung . Tony weis the ecological hoofprint the global burden of industrial livestock zed books new york new york 2013 155 pp isbn 978 1 78032 096 0 lauren port 1 agriculture and human values volume 32 pages 799 800 2015cite this article 358 accesses 0 altmetric metrics details this is a preview of subscription content log in to check access access options buy single article . The great merit of tony weis excellent the ecological hoofprint the global burden of industrial agriculture is that it offers a highly readable tightly argued structural analysis of the contemporary world food system predicated as it is on both inequality and inefficiency