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<p>CRITICS GIVE RAVE REVIEWS FOR ANIMAL FACTORY <p> Kirby combines the narrative urgency of Sinclair's novel with the investigative reporting of Schlosser's book -- Animal Factory is nonfiction, but reads like a thriller. There's no political pleading or ideological agitprop in this book; it's remarkably fair-minded, both sober and sobering. Like Sinclair's and Schlosser's work, it has the potential to change the collective American mind about contemporary food issues. -- NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, BOOKS WE LIKE <p> Kirby profiles three individuals who have been subjected to the stench, mess, environmental contamination, and health risks of megafarms. Stonewalling government agencies and evasive and hostile factory-farm owners and their corporate overseers ensure that the trio's battles for safe air and water have been protracted, complicated, and dangerous, hence the magnitude of Kirby's meticulously detailed yet propulsive chronicle. Thanks to Kirby's extraordinary journalism, wer

<p>CRITICS GIVE RAVE REVIEWS FOR ANIMAL FACTORY <p> Kirby combines the narrative urgency of Sinclair's novel with the investigative reporting of Schlosser's book -- Animal Factory is nonfiction, but reads like a thriller. There's no political pleading or ideological agitprop in this book; it's remarkably fair-minded, both sober and sobering. Like Sinclair's and Schlosser's work, it has the potential to change the collective American mind about contemporary food issues. -- NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, BOOKS WE LIKE <p> Kirby profiles three individuals who have been subjected to the stench, mess, environmental contamination, and health risks of megafarms. Stonewalling government agencies and evasive and hostile factory-farm owners and their corporate overseers ensure that the trio's battles for safe air and water have been protracted, complicated, and dangerous, hence the magnitude of Kirby's meticulously detailed yet propulsive chronicle. Thanks to Kirby's extraordinary journalism, we have the most relatable, irrefutable, and unforgettable testimony yet to the hazards of industrial animal farming. -- BOOKLIST - JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSN * STARRED REVIEW* <p> <br> Animal Factory is a compelling narrative in the tradition of Upton Sinclair, whose 1906 novel The Jungle led to changes in the meat-packing industry. It isn't a novel, but it moves along with the urgency of a pot-boiler. What Kirby has done in this journalistic account of animal factory operations across the country is draw back the curtains that have carefully screened from the public the untidy secrets about how meat is produced on a large scale in this country. You'll read about the cramped feeding operations where animals are fattened for market, the pharmaceuticals that go into feed, the alarming practices used to dispose of feces and urine and how animal byproducts sometimes wind up in feed. --THECHARLOTTE OBSERVER <p><br> Kirby turns his investigative reporting skills to the human an

<p>CRITICS GIVE RAVE REVIEWS FOR ANIMAL FACTORY <p>&#8220;Kirby combines the narrative urgency of Sinclair's novel with the investigative reporting of Schlosser's book &#8212; Animal Factory is nonfiction, but reads like a thriller. There's no political pleading or ideological agitprop in this book; it's remarkably fair-minded, both sober and sobering. Like Sinclair's and Schlosser's work, it has the potential to change the collective American mind about contemporary food issues.&#8221;-- NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, &#8220;BOOKS WE LIKE&#8221; <p>&#8220;Kirby profiles three individuals who have been subjected to the stench, mess, environmental contamination, and health risks of megafarms. Stonewalling government agencies and evasive and hostile factory-farm owners and their corporate overseers ensure that the trio&#8217;s battles for safe air and water have been protracted, complicated, and dangerous, hence the magnitude of Kirby&#8217;s meticulously detailed yet propulsive chronicle.u

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DAVID KIRBY is the author of Evidence of Harm, which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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