Portrait Of A Burger As A Young Calf

Five years ago, journalist Peter Lovenheim was standing in a long line at McDonald's to buy a Happy Meal for his young daughter, which would come with a much-desired Teenie Beanie Baby-either a black-and-white cow named Daisy or a red bull named Snort. Finding it strange that young children were being offered cuddly toy cows one minute and eating the grilled remains of real ones the next, Lovenheim became determined to understand the process by which living animals become food.
Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf is the provocative true story of Peter Lovenheim's hands-on journey into the dairy and beef industries as he follows two calves from conception to possible consumption. Reading this book will forever change the think about food and the people and animals who provide it for us.