This book required standing on the shoulders of giants: activists and organizations, writers and publishers, scientists, funders, and public interest attorneys who for many decades have been battling against the wrongs of the CAFO system and the industrial meat, dairy, and egg complex. Many deserve special thanks, and please pardon us if we have unintentionally forgotten to list someone.
Thanks to all the authors who graciously donated their essays and many hours of editing, legal reviews, and revisions. Rebecca Spector and Andrew Kimbrell of the Center for Food Safety conducted much of the early research for this project, following their landmark book, Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture. Our project manager, Sharon Donovan, coordinated the final publication effort, along with a dedicated editorial team led by Mary Anne Stewart, who spent months polishing the manuscript. Christen Crumley and Emmett Hopkins of Watershed Media, Patty Lovera of Food and Water Watch, and Tom Butler and George Wuerthner of the Foundation for Deep Ecology provided essential research and editorial support. Janet Reed Blake proofread; Roger Myers kept us on a tight legal track; and BookMatters typeset the book.
Numerous scientists and industry experts helped us with technical reviews, including Larry Baldwin of the Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation; Dave Bard and Andrea Kavanagh of the Pew Environment Program; Joann Burkholder of North Carolina State University; Kendra Kimbirauskas; Bob Lawrence, Shawn McKenzie, and Leo Horrigan at the Johns Hopkins University Center for a Livable Future; Kathy Martin; Carole Morison; Doug Morton and Peter Griffith of NASA; Helen Reddout; Amy Sapkota of the University of Maryland; Doug Gurian-Sherman of the Union of Concerned Scientists; Sara Shields of the Humane Society of the United States; and Elanor Starmer of Food and Water Watch.
Thanks also to Jennie Curtis and the Garfield Foundation for their steadfast support of Watershed Media, as well as to the staff of the Foundation for Deep Ecology. And last, but certainly not least, to our principal collaborators on this intensely demanding project, Doug Tompkins, founder and president of the Foundation for Deep Ecology, and Roberto Carra, the graphic designer on this book’s photo-format companion volume and my long-time collaborator who stayed true to the vision for the project and made sure we did our best to achieve it.
—Daniel Imhoff, Editor