Ecological Hoofprint

Tony Weis is an associate professor of geography at the University of Western Ontario. His research is broadly located at the intersection of political ecology and agrarian political economy. He is the author of The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming (Zed Books, 2007), and numerous articles and book chapters on environmental and development issues surrounding agriculture.

• Introduction: meatification and why it matters1. Contextualizing the hoofprint: global environmental change and inequality2. The uneven geography of meat3. The industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex4. Confronting the ecological hoofprint: towards a more sustainable, just, and humane world

Weis delivers a penetrating and systematic structural analysis of the global industrial feeds-livestock complex that reveals the extent to which Earth's resources are subsumed to the logic of cheap meat production. Insightful, accessible, compelling, this is a must read for scholars and students of the food system.