Modern Meat

Book by Orville Schell

978-0394518909

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".^[1]

Another reviewer said that the book was controversial and "warns of subtle—but potentially dangerous—long-range effects of 'pharmaceutical farming.'"^[2]

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."^[3]

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association called the book "one-sided" and "seriously flawed".^[2] Consumer advocate Ralph Nader called the book "precise and gripping".^[2]

References

^ Marquand, Cynthia B. (22 October 1984). "'Modern Meat' raises tough questions for consumers to chew on; Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm, by Orville Schell". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c Faber, Nancy (September 24, 1984). "Orville Schell Beefs About Cattle and Chemicals in a Controversial Book, Modern Meat". People. 22 (13). Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ staff (1 April 1984). "MODERN MEAT: Antibiotics, Hormones and the Pharmaceutical Farm by Orville Schell". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 14 November 2014.