Unlike wildfire smoke or oil spills, pollution from hog farms is not something you can easily capture in a photograph. This issue is the subject of Wastelands, a nonfiction environmental legal thriller by Corban Addison, an attorney and novelist. The 400-page book reports on a series of court cases filed against Smithfield Foods by neighbors of its industrial hog operations.
Read MoreThe simple truth is that many of us are conditioned to fear and hate bugs as we get older. We think of bugs as signs of dirtiness, as garden pests, or as threats that can bite and sting us. As author Vicki Hird writes in Rebugging the Planet:, this is an attitude we ought to change.
Read MoreSapiens author Yuval Noah Hariri kindles an understanding of the increasingly catastrophic impact we have had on the species around us over the millennia, concluding that our treatment of farm animals “might well be the greatest crime in history.”
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