{"product_id":"9781408846346","title":"Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat","description":"\u003cp\u003eFarm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating – as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Our health is under threat: half of all antibiotics used worldwide (rising to 80 per cent in US) are routinely given to industrially farmed animals, contributing to the emergence of deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Wildlife is being systematically destroyed: bees are now trucked across the States (and even airfreighted from Australia) to pollinate the fruit trees in the vast orchards of California, where a chemical assault has decimated the wild insect population\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Cereals that could feed billions of people are being given to animals: soya and grain that could nourish the world's poorest, are now grown increasingly as animal fodder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFarmageddon\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world – from the UK, Europe and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. It is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47778577842416,"sku":"9781408846346","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408846346_p0.jpg?v=1763720520","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408846346","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}