Modern Meat
{{Short description|Book by Orville Schell}}
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| subject = intensive animal farming and antibiotic use in livestock
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| publisher = Random House
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| pages = 337
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Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm is a 1984 book by Orville Schell on intensive animal farming and antibiotic use in livestock.
Reviews
One reviewer said that the book is a "startling introduction to today's mass-producing factory farms" but that it had the flaw of the author's "unrestrained personal bias and overdramatization of issues".{{cite web |url= http://www.csmonitor.com/1984/1022/102209.html |title='Modern Meat' raises tough questions for consumers to chew on; Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm, by Orville Schell. |first=Cynthia B. |last=Marquand |work=The Christian Science Monitor |date=22 October 1984 |accessdate=14 November 2014}}
Another reviewer said that the book was controversial and "warns of subtle—but potentially dangerous—long-range effects of 'pharmaceutical farming.'"{{cite journal|last1=Faber|first1=Nancy|title=Orville Schell Beefs About Cattle and Chemicals in a Controversial Book, Modern Meat|journal=People|date=September 24, 1984|volume=22|issue=13|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20088734,00.html|accessdate=14 November 2014}}
A reviewer summarized the book's coverage as descriptions of "the indiscriminate use of ""subtherapeutic"" antibiotics in animal feeds (probably contributing to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in both human and animal hosts); the use of diethylstilbestrol and other hormones; and (more briefly) the USDA meat-inspection programs--plus the industry's search for what could be described as nonfood feeds to simplify the stoking of four-footed machines."{{cite web |url= https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/orville-schell-5/modern-meat-antibiotics-hormones-and-the-pharma/ |title=MODERN MEAT: Antibiotics, Hormones and the Pharmaceutical Farm by Orville Schell |author=staff |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=1 April 1984 |accessdate=14 November 2014}}
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association called the book "one-sided" and "seriously flawed". Consumer advocate Ralph Nader called the book "precise and gripping".
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://orvilleschell.com/bibliography/modern-meat/}}
{{Food industry criticism}}
Category:1984 non-fiction books