The ecological hoofprint the global burden of industrial livestock by tony weis the ecological hoofprint examines the industrialization of livestock production on a world scale which is the driving force behind the phenomenal and uneven increase in global meat consumption and the momentous but greatly underappreciated implications of this trajectory the central argument of the book is that industrial livestock production and the meatification of diets constitute a large and . The ecological hoofprint the global burden of industrial livestock english edition ebook weis tony amazonde kindle shop. Tony weis the ecological hoofprint the global burden of industrial livestock zed books new york new york 2013 155 pp isbn 978 1 78032 096 0 lauren port 1 agriculture and human values volume 32 pages 799 800 2015cite this article 358 accesses 0 altmetric metrics details this is a preview of subscription content log in to check access access options buy single article . Following his previous ground breaking book the global food economy tony weis explains clearly why the growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating. Tony weis in the ecological hoofprint shows that there is much more going on there is an entire social framework underpinning livestock agriculture this framework consists of political structures to legitimize extreme exploitation and an ideology to match ultimately