livestock industry

Learn how farmers raise chickens and what different breeds are called. Plymouth Rock and Silkie are just a couple of the many breeds living on farms.

Examines the efforts of Chinese industry to turn wild animals on the brink of extinction--including tigers, rhinos, and elephants--into livestock commodities through breeding them on farms.

Explores the origins and attributes of hundreds of heritage breeds, and provides advice on choosing and raising heritage breeds on small-scale sustainable farms.

Uses colorful photos and simple, leveled text to introduce children to the animals found on farms around the world.

Presents a diverse selection of primary sources representing all sides of the debate in question about factory farming.

Explores and details how farm animals are treated on modern factory farms.

Examines the history, reproduction, feeding, management, and health care of the most important breeds of beef and dairy cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and horses.

A collection of fifteen controversial essays that debate the benefits of and problems associated with factory farming.

Discusses the environmental and human health problems caused by factory farms within the livestock industry and reveals the impact of animal farms--concentrated animal feeding operations for pigs, dairy cattle, and chickens--on three families and communities.