Jeremy Rifkin's book, Beyond Beef, is an indictment against the cattle culture that has come to shape our world. America's obsession with beef has led to increased hunger, disease and environmental destruction. Rifkin, without a doubt, is anti beef and with painstaking verisimilitude attempts to shed light on the horrific conditions which are brought about by the entire industry. Furthermore, his book is somewhat of a continuity of Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, the first …showed first 75 words of 1358 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1358 total…and the climate is threatened by global warming. The messages set forth in Beyond Beef, and Rifkin's other book, Fast Food Nation, have forever changed my views on the consumption of beef. I have not sworn off beef forever, but I have limited it drastically. This persuasive and passionate book is similar to Laurie Garrett's book The Coming Plague- an urgent warning to everyone who cares about the fate of the Earth and its inhabitants.