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Title: Farmageddon

Subtitle: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

Author: Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-14

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 165 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Environment

Publisher's Summary:

Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health, and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.

Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world - from the UK, Europe, and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru, and Mexico. It is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future.

Members Reviews:

Excellent insight of industrial farming

Any additional comments?

The authors explain in an interesting way methods used nowadays to provide endless meat resources to the supermarkets. It is an interesting story of the industry and how it affects communities worldwide providing facts and research based evidence of the influence that modern farming has on people and planet.

It gives a food for thought on how the world is changing and why we should think twice about the origin of the food we are eating.

Excellent listen

This book was very well written and read. It opened my eyes to the effects that factory farming has and why we as consumers must use our money to change the demand. Buy local organic free range grass fed :)

The narrator

For some reason, the British accent turned me off to continue listening. Informative, but I couldn't finish it.

On The Wrong Track

Any additional comments?

You only need to have little bit of common sense to see that monocultures are a bad idea. You only need a little bit of compassion to feel that the way modern farming practices treat animals is wrong.

You only need a little bit of conviction to change your grocery shopping habits, just a little at first, then perhaps snowballing in to finding yourself buying mostly local, mostly organic, mostly plant-based, and so on.

Start the journey and see where it takes you. I feel good because the food I eat is healthier AND because the food-systems I support with my purchases makes the world a bit happier.

Listen to this book if you want a catalyst for making the change.

Painfully slow narration

Would you try another book from Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott and/or Julian Elfer?

I didn't like the narrator. He started at a good tempo (as in the audible sample) but slowed to an annoyingly pedestrian pace part way through. The narration shouldn't be so slow that it gives you time to contemplate each word.

Were the concepts of this book easy to follow, or were they too technical?

I was hoping for a little more education and a little less story.

How could the performance have been better?

The narrator needs to read sentences, not words. The reading had a very deliberate feel to it. It wasn't flowing. It just wasn't easy to listen to.

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

For the most part, I enjoyed the author's writing, and I likely would not have returned the book had the narrator read the material at a faster pace. Given the title, I was expecting something a little more educational, and a little less biographical, and I was disappointed with how little I learned from the book.