A review by binxthinx
Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment by David Kirby

3.0

This is a book that has been done before, and been done better.I learned some interesting things from this book, so I can't completely reject its worth. However, the style was irritating, in my opinion. Essentially, there are three stories framing the book, about three people who have suffered and stood up to these Animal Factories. I could tell the man was a journalist by his style, and unfortunately, while he is clearly a good writer, I found his handling of the case studies (apologies for the wrong use of this word) dull and repetitive. It smelled, there was poop in the water, the farmers were rude. I guess I just didn't feel like what he said he was going to discuss and how he was going to discuss it (from the introductory parts) were covered as well as I'd hoped. Anyways, not a bad book. but it just drags in parts and the people in it didn't feel like they had sufficiently unique stories.