Meat: The opium of the 21st Century - Paperback

by Salim M. Ali (Author)

Meat consumption is keeping pace with the worldwide rise in the standard of living. Slowly but surely meat is becoming the staple food of the whole population of the world and agriculture is focusing more and more on food of animal origin. Forests and wild animals are gradually disappearing, while animal husbandry and fodder production are becoming the focus of agriculture. Nutritional diseases and environmental disasters will remain as the legacy of mankind if nothing is done to halt this in time.

Author Biography

Dr. rer. pol. Salim M. Ali, was born in India in 1954.He studied social sciences in Germany and did his doctorate in economics and social sciences. Between 1992 and 2010, he taught Sociology of Food at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. He is the author of several books on food and the worldwide eradication of hunger and malnutrition.