Information to Help you Raise Eco-Conscious Children

Last week David Kirby’s newest book, Animal Factory, hit the store shelves. A review copy also hit my mailbox and I’ve been engrossed in the book since then. So far I’m impressed with Kirby’s story of three community activists that are working to stop toxic Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) from taking over rural America. It will probably be another week or two before I finish the article and can publish a comprehensive review but in the interim, here is an excerpt from the book (published with permission)

Introduction
by David Kirby,
Author of Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment

May 27, 2009

Many Americans have no idea where their food comes from, and many have no desire to find out.

That is unfortunate.

Every bite we take has had some impact on the natural environment, somewhere in the world. As the planet grows more crowded, and more farmers turn to industrialized methods to feed millions of new mouths, that impact will only worsen.

The willful ignorance of our own food’s provenance is curious, given our Discovery Channel-like fascination with the way in which everything else in our modern world is made. Some consumers will spend hours online reading up on cars, cosmetics, or clothes, searching out the most meticulously crafted or environmentally healthy products they can find, then run down to the supermarket and load their carts with bacon, butter, chicken, and eggs without thinking for a second where — or how — any of those goods were produced.
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