Fairlie's fantastic book set me to right. Immensely readable and very well written, debunks a lot of popular opinions I always thought were a bit suspect. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Garnering huge praise in the UK, this is a book that answers the question: should we be farming animals, or not? Meat: A Benign Extravagance is a groundbreaking exploration of the difficult environmental, ethical and health issues surrounding the human consumption of animals. Gene was also a contributor to Farming Magazine and The Draft Horse Journal. Fairlie corrects that problem. Here he shows that while meat is generally a luxury it is often the best option, and could always be turned to advantage-if only we did things properly; but this, with present economic policies and legal restrictions, is becoming less and less possible. Not a simple answer, but one that takes all views on meat eating into account. Simon Fairlie is a great thinker and a great writer." Is meat evil? This book was more than I was looking for actually but the knowledge I have gained has now armed me to speak intelligently about these issues. It lays out in detail the reasons why we must indeed decrease the amount of meat we eat, both for the planet and for ourselves, and yet explores how different forms of agriculture--including livestock--shape our landscape and culture. More Reviews. Everyone should read this book-especially governments, and all campaigners." Simon Fairlie's book lays out the reasons why we must decrease the amount of meat we eat, both for the planet and for ourselves. The golden hoof and green manure 8. Meat: A Benign Extravagance is a groundbreaking exploration of the difficult environmental, ethical and health issues surrounding the human consumption of animals. The Fence. the authoritative text on edible landscaping, featuring a step-by-step guide to designing a productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ... Bestselling author Sandor Katz—an “unlikely rock star of the American food scene” (New York Times)—delivers ... Bestselling author Sandor Katz—an “unlikely rock star of the American food scene” (New York Times)—delivers As author Gene Logsdon puts it, We are all tree huggers. He now runs Chapter 7, an organization that provides planning advice to smallholders and other low income people in the countryside. Animal furlongs and vegetable miles 14. His nonfiction works include Gene Everlasting, A Sanctuary of Trees, and Living at Nature’s Pace. On granaries 11. --George Monbiot, Environmental and political activist, author and journalist, "Simon Fairlie's Meat: A Benign Extravagance is the sanest book I have read on the subject of how the human race is going to feed itself in the years ahead." Family members have read this book and loved it. He lived and farmed in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, where he died in 2016, a few weeks after finishing his final book, Letter to a Young Farmer. It is more than a primer, offering an insightful examination of the central problems of agriculture itself, both past and present.”, "This book is a masterpiece: original, challenging and brilliantly argued. In response, some activists have proposed a worldwide transition to vegetarian or even vegan diets. While Fairlie tackles the most inflated arguments against meat production, his strongest critique is reserved for industrial agriculture, which leverages the use of petroleum to produce a kind of meat that is by any measure non-sustainable. The world's meat consumption is rapidly rising, leading to devastating environmental impacts as well as having long term health implications for societies everywhere. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Scrip. I'm a microbiologist turned vegan in grad school, and I hadn't even scratched the surface in my own mind of some of the issues Fairlie brings up. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Keith’s take is more passionate, disputing the health, environmental and ethical arguments of veganism with the still sizzling resentment of someone who found her health severely compromised after 20 years of veganism. You Save 24%. Not a simple answer, but one that takes all views on meat eating into account. Further, he argues that meat can be produced efficiently on a smaller scale and then distributed equitably among nations. This is an excellent book , written by an author who actually does his research, highly topical in this climate for blaming cattle for global warming. Unable to add item to List. Choice Reviews- The Western penchant for the overconsumption of meat has led to concerns about sustainability, food security, and social and environmental justice. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Garnering huge praise in the UK, this is a book that answers the question: should we be farming animals, or not? Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. I would suggest this for anyone considering going vegan because of environmental factors and beef is more complex then people think. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Garnering huge praise in the UK, this is a book that answers the question: should we be farming animals, or not? Garnering huge praise in the UK, this is a book that answers the question: should we be farming animals, or not? In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. The world's meat consumption is rapidly rising, leading to devastating environmental impacts as well as having long … In this comprehensive, meticulously researched study based primarily on an analysis of professional literature and focused mostly on food production in the UK and, to a lesser extent, the US, Fairlie (community farmer; editor, The Land, UK) views vegetarianism/veganism as only a partial solution. His solution to the problem of efficiency is to reject the specialized industrial farming model sanctioned by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, which is based on the expensive and wasteful production of grain, for what he terms a "default livestock" model. Should be read by vegan and factory farmed meat eating audiences alike in order for all to get a little perspective and to see a way forward. Can Britain feed itself? Meat: A Benign Extravagance is an exploration of the difficult environmental, ethical and health issues surrounding the human consumption of animal flesh. Loot. By helping us understand how our food choices actually shape the landscape in which we live, he provides a perspective that is all too often missing in the more simplistic judgments which are all too prevalent in our public discourse about food. Simon Fairlie, a former farmer, now editor of The Land magazine, delves into the issue in his book Meat: A Benign Extravagance (Chelsea Green, 2010). Working entirely in harmony with nature, The Permaculture Garden shows you how to turn a Bread. Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. If you are someone who wants to get a better focus on a very foggy picture of humans and their food, this is the book for you. The meat-producing system Fairlie advocates differs sharply from the one now practised in the rich world: low energy, low waste, just, diverse, small-scale. Over the course of his long life and career as a writer, farmer, and journalist, Gene Logsdon published more than two dozen books, both practical and philosophical, on all aspects of rural life and affairs. The struggle between light and shade 18. Global warming: cows or cars? The value of this book is chiefly the well-argued case that it makes against both industrial forms of meat production and the folly of veganism as a universal dietary solution to animal cruelty and threats of climate change. This brilliant book is essential reading for anyone who cares about food and the environment." “Simon Fairlie, a farmworker and editor of Britain's prestigious Ecologist magazine, has given us a wonderful treatise on the ecological niche and cultural history of the world's primary livestock animals: beef and dairy cattle, pigs, sheep, and poultry. Everyone should read this book-especially governments, and all campaigners." Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2020. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2016. ­ Fairlie is kind toward individual vegans but little social or ecological value is to be gained and much lost from expanding vegan dietary practices. --Gene Logsdon, Author of Holy Shit and The Contrary Farmer, "Simon Fairlie provides us with an unusual and extremely important gift in his new book, Meat: A Benign Extravagance. 15. Is Meat Benign, or Extravagant? The value of this book is chiefly the well-argued case that it makes against both industrial forms of meat production and the folly of veganism as a universal dietary solution to animal cruelty and threats of climate change. Meat : a benign extravagance. Garnering huge praise in the UK, this is a book that answers the question: should we be farming animals, or not? Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Towards a permaculture livestock economy. The cow is the most productive, efficient creature on earth. I think that perhaps the title of the book says it in a nutshell: meat, a benign extravagance. He lives and farms in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Meat: A Benign Extravagance @inproceedings{Fairlie2010MeatAB, title={Meat: A Benign Extravagance}, author={S. Fairlie}, year={2010} } The Land Requirements of Livestock. Recently I was given a review copy of Simon Fairlie's new book entitled Meat: A Benign Extravagance, published by Chelsea Green (2010), right around the same time I wrote what some might consider a rather controversial blog on the subject of meat on urbandiner. Omar Barghouti Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for … The world's meat consumption is rapidly rising, leading to devastating environmental impacts as well as having long term health implications for societies everywhere. Clifford Allan Redin Savory (born 15 September 1935 on a 40,000 acre ranch in Zimbabwe) is a Zimbabwean ecologist, livestock farmer, and president and co-founder of the Savory Institute. This model is an integrated agricultural system of raising vegetables in which both vegetable byproducts and land unsuitable for other agricultural purposes are used to produce meat, dairy, and other animal products. Meat - A Benign Extravagance . Fairlie shows us that meat production in essence is a secondary function of holistic farming: a gift of land, and is at the very worst, a “benign extravagance”. Humans have always depended on trees for our food, shelter, livelihood, and safety. But not just for To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Richard Barnett | Monday, 1st November 2010. Garnering huge praise in the UK, this is a book that answers the question: should we be farming animals, or not? Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2014. sentimental or even environmental reasons. : A Benign Extravagance is the sanest book I have read on the subject of how the human race is going to feed itself in the years ahead." For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Everyone interested in how their food choices can affect the ecological, social and economic health of the communities in which they live, should read this book." There is more to this than retrospective, however. our eldercare system. She will give you fresh Get this from a library! 3. He now runs Chapter 7, an organization that provides planning advice to smallholders and other low income people in the countryside. Corpus ID: 170019253. solutions for how to survive—and thrive—in catastrophic times. His most recent novel is Pope Mary and the Church of Almighty Good Food. [Simon Fairlie] -- This work is an exploration of the difficult environmental and ethical issues that surround the human consumption of animal flesh. All About Organics, Environment & Climate, Organic Transitions, Farm Issues. A prolific nonfiction writer, novelist, and journalist, Gene Logsdon has published more than two dozen books, both practical and philosophical. Vegan eaters and farmers might well work and eat in a matrix of integrated livestock farming. A Sanctuary of Trees: Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats, Alone and Invisible No More: How Grassroots Community, Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally, Fermentation as Metaphor: Follow Up to the Bestselling. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2019. "We should all be vegetarian" would mean vast use of synthetic fertilizers, vast areas of monocultural crops which cannot be organically grown, and harsh borders with wilderness. what money is, and what it can do for us. Interesting read. 10. Moolah. For starters, small-scale livestock farmers world-wide took the statistical blame for … Fairlie's aim is to shed light on the current debate over the role of meat in the human diet, economy, and perhaps most importantly, the flows of carbon dioxide and methane from human activities that threaten to unhinge the climate. A secondary and significant value of Meat is the careful explication it makes of the complementary roles of our familiar livestock animals in mixed farm production, a system far more likely to serve us well through the coming decades of energy descent than industrial agriculture. Lucre. Even scientists who do Life Cycle Analysis often miss the landscape impact analysis. Worth the time. Up to 50% Off Select Toys and Collectibles, Knock Knock Gifts, Books & Office Supplies, 25% Off B&N Exclusive Holiday Faux Fur Throws, B&N Exclusive Holiday Totes - $4.99 with Purchase, Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. It is a well-researched look at agricultural and environmental theory from a fabulous writer and a farmer, and is sure to take off where other books on vegetarianism and veganism have fallen short in their global scope. Scratch. bare plot into a beautiful and productive garden. Vegans and vegetarians - read this, because even if you end up disagreeing, you should at least discover the complexities of large-scale farming, and that there is no easy 'solution' to the ecological burden we humans place on the planet. ... debate about how we feed ourselves and that meat and dairy might just return to the sustainable position of being an extravagance that is reserved more for special occasions rather than … Vegan eaters and farmers might well work and eat in a matrix of integrated livestock farming. He then subjects their case to the first treatment I’ve read that is both objective and forensic. Moolah. Everyone interested in how their food choices can affect the ecological, social and economic health of the communities in which they live, should read this book." Some livestock-related beliefs that now enjoy favored nation status do not survive his witty yet exacting scholarship. --Gene Logsdon, Author of Holy Shit and The Contrary Farmer, "Simon Fairlie provides us with an unusual and extremely important gift in his new book, Meat: A Benign Extravagance. Food Security 9. Submit your email address to receive Barnes & Noble offers & updates. We all think we know intuitively Holistic cowboys and carbon farmers 16. These are two contradictory qualities. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. An excellent breakdown of the issues and debunking of the myths around the impact of meat . Throughout “MEAT, the benign extravagance,” Fairlie is deliciously sceptical, analytical, critical and harsh on all our separate sacred cows, reducing our theories and dismissing others. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. This brilliant book is essential reading for anyone who cares about food and the environment." Sedentary pigs, nomadic cows, urban chickens 2. Not a simple answer, but one that takes all views on meat eating into account. In this comprehensive, meticulously researched study based primarily on an analysis of professional literature and focused mostly on food production in the UK and, to a lesser extent, the US, Fairlie (community farmer; editor, The Land, UK) views vegetarianism/veganism as only a partial solution. Here he shows that while meat is generally a luxury it is often the best option, and could always be turned to advantage-if only we did things properly; but this, with present economic policies and legal restrictions, is becoming less and less possible. Green. Please try your request again later. This is what scientific writing looks like when it is done by enlightened amateurs, not tenured specialists. Fairlie asserts that small-scale, local livestock rearing can be an environmentally neutral, or even beneficial, aspect of sustainable food production, especially when animals are reared on non-arable land, fed on unpalatable-to-human grasses or food wastes, and used to transport nutrients locally in the form of manure. Meat: A Benign Extravagance is a groundbreaking exploration of the difficult environmental, ethical and health issues surrounding the human consumption of animals. Default livestock 4. Please try again. I was never exposed to any kind of farm education, or hunting really, although my dad did a bit when I was a kid, and I remember being mortified. Still 'less meat' - but animals integrated with organic crops - and then the questions of how to treat and use those animals. Erudite, well grounded in the author's farming experience, and delightfully written, this book recommends itself to all permaculture designers, and to every intelligent reader who has concerns for climate stability and a regenerative land use. It is It lays out in detail the reasons why we must decrease the amount of meat we eat, both for the planet and for ourselves and explores how different forms of agriculture shape our landscape and culture. He did an abrupt U-turn after reading Simon Fairlie’s book, Meat — A Benign Extravagance. "Meat - a benign extravagance - is an exploration of the difficult environmental and ethical issues that surround the human consumption of animal flesh. This model is an integrated agricultural system of raising vegetables in which both vegetable byproducts and land unsuitable for other agricultural purposes are used to produce meat, dairy, and other animal products. I'm probably the last person I'd ever have expected to buy this book, let alone give it 5 stars. Simon Fairlie's book lays out the reasons why we must decrease the amount of meat we eat, both for the planet and for ourselves. Meat: A Benign Extravagance By Simon Fairlie Chelsea Green Publishing, 2010. An acre a meal? He was a co-editor of The Ecologist magazine for four years, before joining a community farm in 1994 where he managed the cows, pigs and a working horse for ten years. Meat is a groundbreaking exploration of the difficult environmental, ethical and health issues surrounding the human consumption of animals. There is more to this than retrospective, however. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Green. His book is an abattoir for misleading claims and dodgy figures, on both sides of … This book carefully analyses all aspects of farming for meat from a holistic viewpoint. Got this for a gift. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. He assesses the environmental impact of a variety of food/agricultural paradigms, including veganism, organic, and factory farming. Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. You get tired of the simplistic colour supplement level of the vegans versus meat eaters. Meat: A Benign Extravagance is the second book positioning itself against vegan claims in recent years, with Lierre Keith’s influential The Vegetarian Myth being the first. The Western penchant for the overconsumption of meat has led to concerns about sustainability, food security, and social and environmental justice. (See the top 10 animal stories of 2009.) Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. --Colin Tudge, Biologist and author, "This is a tremendous and very timely book: the world's meat consumption is rapidly rising, leading to devastating environmental impacts as well as having long term health implications for societies everywhere. Like many people concerned with the difficulty of feeding the world and keeping GHG emissions down, I assumed that meat was all bad and, being a carnivore, ate it with a vague feeling of guilt. He wrote a popular blog, The Contrary Farmer, as well as an award-winning column for the Carey, Ohio, Progressor Times. By helping us understand how our food choices actually shape the landscape in which we live, he provides a perspective that is all too often missing in the more simplistic judgments which are all too prevalent in our public discourse about food. This books shows reasons that eating meat is okay! His solution to the problem of efficiency is to reject the specialized industrial farming model sanctioned by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, which is based on the expensive and wasteful production of grain, for what he terms a "default livestock" model. His measures for environmental effects include total land use required, water use, carbon dioxide production, and other greenhouse gas emissions. As a first time reader of Simon Fairlie`s work, I found Meat to be an all embracing experience and definitely in the top 5 books I have ever read. --Rosie Boycott, Founder of Spare Rib and Virago Press, ex-editor of the Independent, Independent on Sunday, Daily Express and Esquire magazine, broadcaster, writer and campaigner and currently Food Advisor to the Mayor of London. The cow is the most productive, efficient creature on earth. In Meat: A Benign Extravagance, Simon Fairlie lays out an extremely detailed, multi-layered argument for how small "default" amounts of meat production can be part of a sustainable agricultural system. You can visit his blog at http://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/. Meat: A Benign Extravagance is a groundbreaking exploration of the difficult environmental, ethical and health issues surrounding the human consumption of animals. He runs a micro-dairy at Monkton Wyld Court Community in Dorset, and the Scythe Shop, offering Austrian scythes and beginners’ scything courses. He was a co-editor of The Ecologist magazine for four years, before joining a community farm in 1994 where he managed the cows, pigs and a working horse for ten years. --Colin Tudge, Biologist and author, "This is a tremendous and very timely book: the world's meat consumption is rapidly rising, leading to devastating environmental impacts as well as having long term health implications for societies everywhere. I've read about half of the essay-style chapters (which is great, because you can skip around to the issues at the forefront of your thoughts on any given day), and this guy really did his homework. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Bread. 1. Gene’s nonfiction works include Holy Shit, Small-Scale Grain Raising, Living at Nature’s Pace, The Contrary Farmer's Invitation to Gardening, Good Spirits, and The Contrary Farmer. --Frederick Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and President of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, "No-one has ever analysed the world's food and agriculture more astutely than Simon Fairlie-an original thinker and a true scholar. Meat - A Benign Extravagance is an exploration of the difficult environmental and ethical issues that surround the human consumption of animal flesh. A secondary and significant value of Meat is the careful explication it makes of the complementary roles of our familiar livestock animals in mixed farm production, a system far more likely to serve us well through the coming decades of energy descent than industrial agriculture. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2012. absolutely loved reading this book, it was a joy to read something where someone looked at the facts first before just choosing whatever to support and opinion they had already. Meat: A Benign Extravagance: The Best Book of the Year on Food and Farming. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. He is the author of Low Impact Development: Planning and People in a Sustainable Countryside (Jon Carpenter, 1996), and Meat: A Benign Extravagance. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. It is more than a primer, offering an insightful examination of the central problems of agriculture itself, both past and present. A vocal minority shouts “Yes!” The British eco-journalist, George Monbiot, was an enthusiastic advocate for the vegan diet. Although he sees advantages to the adoption of vegetarian and vegan diets, he maintains that vegetables do not produce the higher quality protein of meat diets. Footloose food 12. Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2016, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2019. 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