From breeding & feeding to medicalization : animal farming, veterinarization and consumers in the Twentieth-Century Western Europe / edited by Daniel Lanero Taboas, Carin Martiin, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto and Laurent Herment.
To fully understand the changes in European animal husbandry during a long twentieth century, it is necessary to examine all aspects of the food chain devoted to supply proteins and fats to an increasing population. Indeed, the 20th Century saw great changes in animal husbandry - towards a market oriented, intensified and specialized production. This influenced and was influenced by policies, trade, aspects of animal and public health, food supply issues, aims in animal breeding, development of production systems, principles in feeding and impact of producer cooperatives.00Because it is not possible to apprehend all these global changes from a rural point of view, the book aims at gathering a large set of expertise. agronomy, veterinary medicine, microbiology, history of sciences, economic and cultural history, and sociology. Taking into account both national idiosyncrasies and changes in an international perspective, the book gathers scientists from Italy, Spain, France, England, Netherlands, and Sweden.00The first part of the book will be devoted to the evolution of animal husbandry and commercialization from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21th century. The second part of the book is devoted to the increasing medicalization of this sector with a special focus about the role of veterinarians and the on the increasing uses of antibiotics.
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