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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hayes, Denis, 1944- author.     Subjects     Cattle -- Environmental aspects -- United States.     Cattle -- Social aspects -- United States.     Cattle -- Health aspects -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hayes, Denis, 1944- author.       by title:      Cowed : the hidden i...         MARC Display

Cowed : the hidden impact of 93 million cows on America's health, economy, politics, culture, and environment / Denis Hayes & Gail Boyer Hayes. by Hayes, Denis, 1944- author. New York, New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2015. Subjects Cattle -- Environmental aspects -- United States.   Cattle -- Social aspects -- United States.   Cattle -- Health aspects -- United States. ISBN:  9780393239942 (hbk.) : 0393239942 (hbk.) Description:  392 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction: Setting out -- Bewitched by cows -- Whoa! Cows' big bite -- Hoofprints on your tablecloth -- Lagoon blues -- Got milked? -- Don't have a cowburger -- Cannibal cows -- Why buy organic beef and dairy? -- Cowboys vs. astronauts -- Don't be cruel -- Afterword: Tail end of an era -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. Requests:  0 Summary:  In Cowed, globally recognized environmentalists Denis and Gail Boyer Hayes offer a revealing analysis of how our beneficial, centuries-old relationship with bovines has evolved into one that now endangers us. Our society is built on the backs of bovines who indelibly stamped our culture, politics, and economics. But our national herd has doubled in size over the past hundred years to 93 million, with devastating consequences for the country's soil and water. Our love affair with dairy and hamburgers doesn't help either: eating one pound of beef produces a greater carbon footprint than burning a gallon of gasoline. Denis and Gail Hayes begin their story by tracing the co-evolution of cows and humans, starting with majestic horned aurochs, before taking us through the birth of today's feedlot farms and the threat of mad cow disease. The authors show how cattle farming today has depleted America's largest aquifer, created festering lagoons of animal waste, and drastically increased methane production. In their quest to find fresh solutions to our bovine problem, the authors take us to farms across the country from Vermont to Washington. They visit worm ranchers who compost cow waste, learn that feeding cows oregano yields surprising benefits, talk to sustainable farmers who care for their cows while contributing to their communities, and point toward a future in which we eat less, but better, beef.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 338.1762 Ha Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.1762 Ha Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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