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Philip Lymbery With Isabel Oakeshott Books

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Philip Lymbery is a British environmentalist, author, and chief executive of Compassion in World Farming. He has been a leading voice in animal welfare and sustainable agriculture.

Known for: Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

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Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

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Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat is an investigative work that exposes the hidden costs of industrial farming. Philip Lymbery, CEO of Compassion in World Farming, together with journalist Isabel Oakeshott, travels across the globe to reveal how factory farming damages the environment, human health, and animal welfare. The book argues for a more sustainable and humane approach to food production, emphasizing the urgent need to reform the global food system.

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The Rise of Factory Farming

To understand how we reached this crisis, we need to revisit the postwar years when governments promised to eradicate hunger through science and scale. What began as an ambitious vision—to produce more food from less land—slowly morphed into an industrial juggernaut. In the 1950s and 60s, new techno...

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Animal Welfare and Confinement

Standing inside a broiler shed or a sow crate unit, one cannot escape the sense that something profoundly unnatural has taken root in our food chain. Animals have become biological raw materials, their lives reduced to weight gain or productivity metrics. In the book, I describe visiting a pig farm ...

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About Philip Lymbery With Isabel Oakeshott

Philip Lymbery is a British environmentalist, author, and chief executive of Compassion in World Farming. He has been a leading voice in animal welfare and sustainable agriculture. Isabel Oakeshott is a British political journalist and author known for her investigative reporting and collaborations ...

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Philip Lymbery is a British environmentalist, author, and chief executive of Compassion in World Farming. He has been a leading voice in animal welfare and sustainable agriculture. Isabel Oakeshott is a British political journalist and author known for her investigative reporting and collaborations on non-fiction works.

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