# Modern Meat

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Book by Orville Schell

Modern Meat Author Orville Schell Subject intensive animal farming and antibiotic use in livestock Publisher Random House Publication date 1984 Publication place United States Pages 337 ISBN 978-0394518909

***Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm*** is a 1984 book by [Orville Schell](/source/Orville_Schell) on [intensive animal farming](/source/Intensive_animal_farming) and [antibiotic use in livestock](/source/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock).

## Reviews

One reviewer said that the book is a "startling introduction to today's mass-producing factory farms" but that it had the flaw of the author's "unrestrained personal bias and overdramatization of issues".[1]

Another reviewer said that the book was controversial and "warns of subtle—but potentially dangerous—long-range effects of 'pharmaceutical farming.'"[2]

A reviewer summarized the book's coverage as descriptions of "the indiscriminate use of ""subtherapeutic"" antibiotics in animal feeds (probably contributing to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in both human and animal hosts); the use of diethylstilbestrol and other hormones; and (more briefly) the USDA meat-inspection programs--plus the industry's search for what could be described as nonfood feeds to simplify the stoking of four-footed machines."[3]

The [National Cattlemen's Beef Association](/source/National_Cattlemen's_Beef_Association) called the book "one-sided" and "seriously flawed".[2] Consumer advocate [Ralph Nader](/source/Ralph_Nader) called the book "precise and gripping".[2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Marquand, Cynthia B. (22 October 1984). ["'Modern Meat' raises tough questions for consumers to chew on; Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm, by Orville Schell"](https://www.csmonitor.com/1984/1022/102209.html). *[The Christian Science Monitor](/source/The_Christian_Science_Monitor)*. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-People_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-People_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-People_2-2) Faber, Nancy (September 24, 1984). ["Orville Schell Beefs About Cattle and Chemicals in a Controversial Book, Modern Meat"](http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20088734,00.html). *[People](/source/People_(magazine))*. **22** (13). Retrieved 14 November 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** staff (1 April 1984). ["MODERN MEAT: Antibiotics, Hormones and the Pharmaceutical Farm by Orville Schell"](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/orville-schell-5/modern-meat-antibiotics-hormones-and-the-pharma/). *[Kirkus Reviews](/source/Kirkus_Reviews)*. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

## External links

- [Official website](http://orvilleschell.com/bibliography/modern-meat/)

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