Product Description: by Erik Marcus. Meat Market elevates the debate over animal agriculture. Erik Marcus exposes and clears away the exaggerated claims and counterclaims put forth by the meat industry and its opponents. In the process, Marcus presents a thorough examination of animal agriculture`s widespread cruelties and its far-reaching social costs.Marcus then considers the discouraging progress made by the animal protection movement. He evaluates where the movement has gone wrong, and how its shortcomings could best be remedied. With its groundbreaking and pragmatic analysis, Meat Market is likely to be of interest both to activists and to unabashed but compassionate meat lovers. 274 pages. |