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New pastures, new food: Building via...

Gwin, Lauren Elizabeth.

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New pastures, new food: Building viable alternatives to conventional beef.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	New pastures, new food: Building viable alternatives to conventional beef./
作者:	Gwin, Lauren Elizabeth.
面頁冊數:	192 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: B, page: 4167.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-08B.
標題:	Agriculture, Animal Culture and Nutrition. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3228348
ISBN:	9780542824555

New pastures, new food: Building viable alternatives to conventional beef.
Gwin, Lauren Elizabeth.

New pastures, new food: Building viable alternatives to conventional beef. - 192 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: B, page: 4167.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2006.

This dissertation uses the beef industry to explore the emergence of alternative food production as a response to the social and environmental problems caused by conventional agro-food systems. Conventional meat production in the U.S. has been criticized for harming human health, environmental quality, animal welfare, and small- to mid-sized agricultural operations and rural communities. Inquiry demonstrates that alternative production models have the potential to ameliorate and even solve these problems. Yet they are presently limited in scope, confined to small-scale, "niche" markets.

ISBN: 9780542824555Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017857
Agriculture, Animal Culture and Nutrition.

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520 $a This dissertation uses ethnographic methods and supply chain analysis to profile, on a national basis, three alternative models for beef: natural, grass-fed, and certified organic. All three alternatives are as yet restricted in their ability to expand production by two sets of constraints, both of which reflect the long-term dominance of the large scale, high volume conventional beef production model. The first set of constraints involves consumer expectation about beef, including price, convenience, and taste. The supply chain constraints include critical inputs and infrastructure, both of which have evolved to fit conventional beef production.
520 $a Alternative beef producers have found innovative ways to maneuver around these constraints. However, this dissertation demonstrates that involvement with external, nonmarket institutions (governmental and non-governmental agencies, including university research and extension), is critical for the creation and survival of alternative agro-food systems. At this point those connections are minimal for the alternative beef sector. This appears to stem from alternative producers' strong entrepreneurial attitude and their ideological aversion to non-market approaches to changing food production.
520 $a As a result of these significant constraints, alternative beef is likely to remain a marginal niche, an unevenly accessible option for consumers and producers, without enhanced association with external institutions along with broader structural changes in the U.S. agro-food system, including not only altered consumption habits but shifts in public policy.
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