Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms

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Righteous Porkchop is a searing and utterly convincing indictment of modern meat production. The book also brims with hope and charts a practical (and even beautiful) path out of the jungle. Michael Pollan author of Omnivores Dilemma and In Defense of Food A necessary bookpart memoir part exposits reasoned case for healthy and humane farming practices has the sweet savor of truth. O The Oprah Magazine A crusading environmental activist vegetarian and lawyer who has worked with Robert Kennedy Jr. on environment issues Nicolette Hahn Niman blows the lid off the shocking practices in the pork meat and poultry industries in Righteous Porkchop a Fast Food Nation for the hog trade. Subtitled Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond the Factory Farm Righteous Porkchop is at once an eye-opening grand tour of Hahn Nimans battles with the industrial farming conglomerates a guide to avoiding unhealthy meats and a very personal story of one womans reawakening.