In On the Menu: Animal Welfare Sue Cross has collated a vast range of information about how the animate food we eat is farmed or obtained. Her chapters deal with:
Shellfish, squid and octopus
Fish
Beef
Lamb
Poultry (ducks and geese, guinea fowl, quail and chickens)
Pork
Dairy
Game
Eggs.
The details are given unemotionally and with full references. However, in her Conclusion Sue Cross writes with passion: "We are kept in the dark about the true origin of the food we eat ... the overwhelming majority of the animals used for our food are living out their brief lives frightened, diseased, crippled, shut up in sheds in their thousands. Their entire lives are spent in abject misery, as far removed from a natural existence as can possibly be imagined."
On the Menu: Animal Welfare by Sue Cross is published by Pen Press at £8.95. Contacts: www.penpress.co.uk phone 0845 108 0530.
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