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The result was: promoted by ~HueSatLum 02:40, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
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Farmageddon (book)[edit]
- ... that the author of Farmageddon travelled the world to investigate what happens when 300,000 laying hens are held or 10,000 cows are being milked on a single farm?
Created by NewJohn (talk). Self nominated at 22:54, 12 February 2014 (UTC).
Interesting article, created on 11 Feb and nominated the next day. It's long enough and hook is interesting and sourced. Creator has done a relatively good job paraphrasing the sources, but there is one particular phrase that escaped transformation: "the myths that are used to sell intensive agriculture to populations around the world" Also, although I have no problems with the explicit quote from the book/author viz: According to Lymbery veterinarians should not support systems that are “inherently bad for animal welfare”, e.g. systems that “include the mass production of broiler chickens, caged production of eggs, the large-scale permanent housing of dairy cows (so-called mega dairies) and highly intensive pig production where mothering pigs are kept in confinement where they can't turn around for weeks at a time.", I feel that it might be better to either use it in the form of a block quote or rewrite/paraphrase it into in-line prose.In addition, as there seem to be no shortage of reviews, I feel that there could be more critical commentary from reviewers, or perhaps if it exists, how the book fared in sales.
Reviewer has but one previous DYK, so no QPQ required. -- Ohc ¡digame! 02:48, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
- Thank's for commenting!
- I changed the sentence that hasn't been transformed ("the myths that are used to sell intensive agriculture to populations around the world") to "The authors seek to shed light on the conditions in intensive agriculture which, according to them, often differ from the image that the industry wants to sell to the public. Intensification in animal farming goes along with a growing demand of cropland to grow animal feed – factory farming is thus not a means to save space."
- I shortend the quotes slightly. The remaining quotes work almost as definitions by the authors. Honestly, I don't know what the standard way in Wikipedia is - so I wouldn't object if somebody would transform this piece also.
- "Reception": I chose the sentence by Tristram Stuart because it already expresses that there are people/critics that consider part of the movement against factory farming as "orthodox".
- I assume there will be further reviews in the future when the book is also published outside the UK. I'll keep an eye on it. NewJohn (talk) 16:04, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
