Americans have a love affair with beef. The average American consumes the meat of seven 1,100-pound steers in a lifetime. But how many hamburger-lovers realize that a single boneless beefsteak requires up to 1,200 gallons of precious water to produce, that livestock now consume nearly one third of the world's grain, or that cattle play a central role in species extinction?
- ISBN10 0452269520
- ISBN13 9780452269521
- Publish Date 25 March 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Plume
- Format Paperback
- Pages 353
- Language English