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Factory farms books about industrial farming and the cruel truth behind factory farming

The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?
The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?

Drawing on peer-reviewed research, worker and rescuer testimony, and encounters with the farm animals themselves, The Ultimate Betrayal discusses the recent shift in raising and labeling animals processed for food and the misinformation surrounding this new method of farming.

The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild.

The Inner World of Farm Animals: Their Amazing Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Capacities
The Inner World of Farm Animals: Their Amazing Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Capacities

Chickens can count. Pigs are smarter than poodles. Cows form close friendships. Turkeys know one another by their voices, and sheep recognize faces—of other sheep, and of people.

The Holocaust & the Henmaid’s Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities
The Holocaust & the Henmaid’s Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities

In a thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to the study of animals and the Holocaust, Karen Davis makes the case that significant parallels can―and must―be drawn between the Holocaust and the institutionalized abuse of billions of animals in factory farms.

The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food
The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule: the chain never slows. Under pressure to increase supply, the supervisors of meat processing plants have routinely accelerated production, leading to inhumane conditions, increased accidents, and food of questionable, often dangerous quality.

The Chain (The Kinship Series) (Volume 1)
The Chain (The Kinship Series) (Volume 1)

Everyone called the whistleblower’s death a suicide, including his own wife. But when Jude Brannock, an animal rights investigator, begins asking questions about the processing plant where the whistleblower worked, events turn even uglier.

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry

Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five years - particularly industry consolidation, increased line speeds, and deregulation - have had on workers, animals, and consumers.

Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry
Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry

Karen Davis wrote Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs in the mid-1990s to focus attention on the billions of chickens buried alive on factory farms. The book was a catalyst for animal rights activists seeking to develop effective strategies to expose and relieve the plight of chickens.

Ninety-Five: Meeting America's Farmed Animals in Stories and Photographs
Ninety-Five: Meeting America's Farmed Animals in Stories and Photographs

Ninety-Five is a delightful and engaging anthology of writing and photography by rescuers, caregivers, and those who love the animals. Each animal is portrayed with high quality, full-color photographs and a short story that demonstrate the animal's personality, depth, emotions, quirks, relationships, and individuality.

Food, Inc.
Food, Inc.

Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as 'more than a terrific movie -- it's an important movie.'

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating – as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.

Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight

This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant’s point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day—one every twelve seconds.

Cruel: Bearing Witness To Animal Exploitation
Cruel: Bearing Witness To Animal Exploitation

Longtime activist illustrator Sue Coe, a pioneer defender of animal rights, has produced a striking new work that furthers her career-long exposé of the exploitation of animals raised and slaughtered for human consumption.

Animal factory
Animal factory

The looming threat of industrial pig, dairy, and poultry farms to humans and the environment. Swine flu. Bird flu. Massive fish kills. Concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Recalls of contaminated meats, fruits, and vegetables.

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