Modern Meat

Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm
Author Orville Schell
Country United States
Subject intensive animal farming and antibiotic use in livestock
Publisher Random House
Publication date
1984
Pages 337
ISBN 978-0394518909

Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm is a 1984 book by Orville Schell on intensive animal farming and antibiotic use in livestock.

Reviews

One reviewer said that the book is a "startling introduction to today's mass-producing factory farms" but that it had the flaw of the author's "unrestrained personal bias and overdramatization of issues".[1]

Another reviewer said that the book was controversial and "warns of subtle—but potentially dangerous—long-range effects of 'pharmaceutical farming.'"[2]

A reviewer summarized the book's coverage as descriptions of "the indiscriminate use of ""subtherapeutic"" antibiotics in animal feeds (probably contributing to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in both human and animal hosts); the use of diethylstilbestrol and other hormones; and (more briefly) the USDA meat-inspection programs--plus the industry's search for what could be described as nonfood feeds to simplify the stoking of four-footed machines."[3]

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association called the book "one-sided" and "seriously flawed".[2] Consumer advocate Ralph Nader called the book "precise and gripping".[2]

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