Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms

Asked to head up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s environmental organization's "hog campaign," Nicolette Hahn Niman embarked upon a fascinating odyssey through the inner workings of the factory farm industry. What she discovered transformed her into an intrepid environmental lawyer determined to lock horns with the big business farming establishment. She even, unexpectedly, found love along the way. A searing account of an industry gone awry and one womans passionate fight to remedy it, Righteous Porkchop chronicles Nimans investigation and her determination to organize a national reform movement to fight the shocking practices of industrial animal operations. She offers necessary alternatives, showing how livestock farming can be done in a better wayand she details both why and how to choose meat, poultry, dairy, eggs, and fish from traditionally farmed sources.