The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492, Marcy Norton, 2024, Harvard University Press
It is an annual apocalypse: 33 billion chickens, 785 million pigs, 300 million cows, countless other creatures, raised then slaughtered as food for humans.
The implications of their mass extermination for our sustenance and raw materials so ubiquitous that they have become invisible to us, permeate our modern way of life.
They are present in the riverine pollution caused by slaughterhouse discharges, in the staggering loss of biodiversity . . .
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