Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11

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Exploring the politics and morality that pulled the United States into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, this collection of essays, stories, and satirical pieces lambasts the highest officials in the executive branch for incompetence and moral blindness. Analyses of both wars and the crisis following 9/11 portray the conflicts as opportunities for special interests to entrench themselves in the U.S. government at the expense of U.S. citizens’ civil liberties and tax dollars, and the lives of numerous Afghan and Iraqi non-combatants. Pulling no punches, this work holds George W. Bush and members of his cabinet accountable for acts that would have been prosecutable were the defendants in question not government entities.

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Mindless Ranting.......2007-08-21

This work is garbage. Please see my published review in a recent issue of the academic journal Democracy and Security, Vol. 3, No. 2.
Dr. Robert Hager
Political Science Instructor
Glendale Community College
Glendale, CA

Welfare Queens in the Pentagon.......2006-08-14

Reading the collection of short essays in Higg's slender volume is a reminder that not all the opposition to America's growing war machine comes from the left. There remains a solid core of opposition from the right, anchored in Libertarian principles and voiced in Congress by representative Ron Paul of Texas. Though the material here is neither extensive nor deep, and is too often repetitive, it does serve as a useful reminder of the pre-Cold War Republican party. That was the party of Robert Taft, Main Street America, and small business. They opposed big government, big taxes, international meddling, large standing armies and unionized workers. Their historic defeat came in 1952 with the triumph of the Eisenhower wing and its Wall Street backers. Now, it appears, what's left of that point of view has migrated from the Republicans to the Libertarians, at least as an ideological force.

The articles here are uniformly brief, pungent, and incisive, occasionally rising to an eloquence, as in Chapter 20, on America's War Party. There's also an informative chapter on the hidden true size of the Defense budget, showing how deeply our economy is mired in imperial expenditures. The biggest drawback lies with the format which works against the kind of analytic depth some readers may prefer. The book really works best as a collection of op-ed pieces. So, if you're looking for an anti-empire perspective in short, sweet doses that doesn't mirror the Chomskyite left, then this may be your ticket.

A Classic Anti-War Book.......2006-02-26

"Resurgence of the Warfare State" is a compilation of 47 of Higgs's essays written in reaction to the outpouring of newspeak, disinformation, and propaganda in support of information warfare (IW) since 9/11. With wit and a sense of tragic despair born out of a nostalgic love for an America long gone, Higgs takes us through the last four years of the British fifth column inside Washington, District of Criminals - the Bush Crime Family and its anti-capitalist but very corporatist administration.

Higgs's chronicles of American-powered British empire range from political commentary to unorthodox kinds of prose such as poetry. He says in his Introduction that "At every step, of course, the perpetrators have boldy proclaimed that black is white; that the road to peace must be paved with gravestones; that the 'reconstruction' of a city or even an entire country begins by obliterating it with bombs, rockets, shells, and bullets; that 'liberation' takes the form of heavily armed soldiers bursting into homes and mosques and dragging people off to torture them in hideous prisons, then blaming everything on "terrorists" who include, it turns out, little children now with their eyes blinded, their skin burned, or their limbs blown off by U.S. bombs and bullets."

The first essay is titled "Glory Days for Government: an economic historian talks about national security crises and the growth of government", which was originally an interview with the author by Reason magazine writer Michael Lynch in which Higgs warned that "historically a large proportion of all government expansion has taken place as an emergency or crisis action".

Essay Three is titled "Wake Up to the Law of the Ratchet" coauthored with Professor Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins University where the authors explain that every time government increases in response to perceived crises, it never contracts back to its original size - it is left bigger than it was before the crisis. According to this law, America is lost and has been replaced by Amerika, a corporatist state operated Italian-style.

Essay Seventeen is titled "Free Enterprise and War, a Dangerous Liaison", which goes far to explain how the British Tories infiltrated America's conservative movement and replaced their pro-capitalism with anti-capitalist corporatism, veiled by Orwellian doublespeak so that most conservatives do not cotton on to the usurpation. ( for further reading see Richard Cockett's "Thinking the Unthinkable".)

Essay Twenty-Nine is titled "To Make War, Presidents Lie", which begins with former President McKinley of Canton, Ohio who did the Philippines wrong, and later rode on up to Buffalo but didn't stay too long. Higgs covers Wilson, FDR, LBJ, skips Clinton and concludes with Bush, Jr: "Now President George W. Bush is telling the American people that we stand in mortal peril of imminent attack by Iraqis . . . Bush may be telling the truth. In the light of history, however, we would be making a long-odds bet to believe him". Higgs was prophetic on this one, as www.ImpeachBlair.org uncovered the false information that Bush's British bosses fed him to give credence to his unjust invasion plans.

The remaining essays grow more disturbing. We have lost our country to the British fifth column. America's foreign policy is now Britain's foreign policy. American-powered British Empire is not freedom. Many of Uncle Sam's best allies in the Anglo-American waged world war remain dictators and kings. The U.S. government has been supporting Blair's British foreign policy in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and even Uzbekistan, where U.S. soldiers operate a military base and airfield.

The U.S. military should be upholding liberty and freedom, rather than give military assistance and sell arms to dictators and human rights-abusing governments just because its suits the oil billionaires club's short-term military and geo-political interests. In fact, the U.S. leads the world in arms sales and military training to countries that abuse human rights - as determined by its own State Department!

When will we stop sacrificing our young men to state terrorism in the quest for oil? When will we tell the British to do their empire without American brawn? What would George Washington say? And, lastly, who is Marvin Bush?

Higgs's book should be on your shelf alongside Nicholas John Cull's "Selling War" and James Gibb Stuart's "Hidden Menace to World Peace" by Ossian Publishers, 268 Bath Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 4Jr, United Kingdom.

Unintended Meet Consequences.......2005-12-30

I'm sure this one will get snagged on a certain "Guideline" - paint-by-numbers and all that - but I'm going to submit it anyway - if for no other reason than fyi.

I've just ordered Resurgence of the Warfare State on the strength of one of the customer reviews.

No, not the five star one by Karen Kwiatkowski.

Au contraire. It was the one star one by Jill Malter. Didn't much like the sulphurous stench of special pleading coming off it. In fact, I didn't like it so much that I reached straightaway for my 1-click ordering button. Which is by way of saying, sometimes you can judge a book by the covering fire its negative reviewers are laying down.

The tripline - the real giveaway - was that stark little sentence: "My litmus test on books of this sort is what they say about Israel."

As the old saying goes, I guess that's what makes a horse race. Because funnily enough as an American my litmus test on books of this sort is what they say about America.

And as for: "truth is a value. And I thought that whether we actually ought to invade Iraq, making a big military commitment, did indeed depend on the truth of Saddam Hussein's implicit boasts of being on the verge of having a serious threat involving weapons of mass destruction (while explicitly denying it)".

Let's see, there's a "depend on the truth" followed by an "implicit" followed by a "boast" followed by an "on the verge" followed by a "serious" followed by a "threat" followed by an "involving". What is that, seven! removes. That's world class weasly.

It's just so lame. There's much banging on about America's enemies and threats And then having had its cake the review proceeds to eat it by telling us that "Israel was not immediately threatened by Iraq".

You can't have it both ways. If Iraq's tiny but armed to the teeth neighbour Israel isn't threatened how is it that half a world away the world's only superpower is threatened?

Two words and a question mark sough in the wind here: "delivery systems?"

Bottom line: a wee little case of literary "blowback".

In short, I bought the book dear reader. My five star recommendation is based on a reaction, a strong hunch - and, yes, jumping through the hoops of cyberspace "forms". I'll make any required "adjustments" when I've read it.

A great read and I highly recommend it!.......2005-12-21

Sweet Land of Militarism

by Karen Kwiatkowski

Resurgence of the Warfare State delivers a ferocious punch to those who prefer their states massive and their wars, as Mr. Bush might say, catastrophically successful.

The rest of us, preferring our state small, our leviathan caged, and our wars as a last resort rather than feel-good fixes, will savor Dr. Robert Higgs' latest contribution to modern history and politics. Resurgence is a carefully selected set of powerful essays, organized into eight parts, each focusing on a unique aspect of the modern, post 9-11 American warfare state.

The book begins with an important post-9/11 interview conducted by Michael Lynch of Reason. Dr. Higgs, an economic historian who is Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and editor of their superb journal, The Independent Review, briefly explains the themes of his earlier books, Crisis and Leviathan (1987) and Against Leviathan (2004). What we know, thanks to Higgs' lucid presentation and analysis, is that national crises in American lead to bigger, more invasive, and more hubristic government, the kind that doesn't go away after the crisis fades.

In Resurgence, it becomes clear that some national crises are more equal than others in delivering the government goods of more centralization, more spending, more interference in and control over the private life of American citizens. 9/11 was invaluable and has shown itself to be an unsurpassed opportunity for government growth. Just as after the Japanese attack on the sleepy naval base at Pearl Harbor, America is again a super-animated warfare state.

Shortly after 9-11, Dr. Higgs predicted "an overwhelming public demand for government to act." He saw clearly that new agencies would form and old agencies would find creative new missions. He forecasted that government would graciously bail out major domestic industries of airlines and insurance, call up reservists, make war abroad, and clamp down on civil liberties at home. "Bombs and missiles" would be dropped, he warned.

Of course, he was right in every case. The first set of chapters in Resurgence draws on the wisdom of James Madison, who said, "...of all the enemies of liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded....No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." Of course, preserving universal "freedom" is repeatedly voiced by the White House.

Yet Vice President Cheney is also quoted by Higgs, with this terrifying gem, "[The present war] may never end....It's a new normalcy." This new normalcy is the warfare state, and Madison's grave insight becomes Cheney's glee. Where Madison's Congress may have been contentious and worried about excess executive power, Cheney's Congress after 9-11 was generous and genuflecting toward the White House, filled with admiration for the architects of war on liberty at home and on various sets of unfortunate villains abroad.

Is Washington entirely to blame? Higgs also explains, sometimes humorously, how business and the corporate world in American has adapted to Washington and enjoined the leviathan over the past 100 years. Woodrow Wilson, a war promoter abroad and freedom fighter at home, helped create the modern American economic landscape, a vista that brings the eye inexorably to Halliburton's 9-11 boosted billion dollar no-bid contracts to help out the "war" effort. American defense, and to a lesser extent, energy and banking industries are fourth-generation heirs of what General Smedley Butler called "the racket." 9-11 may have been a surprise to many, but in many ways it represents just one more on-ramp to the government till, and one more hull-crushing iceberg for the ship of state's financial and constitutional accountability.

Higgs shows how our corporate and political culture confuses free market competition with lobbying a greedy Congress and wooing an obese federal bureaucracy for programs, legal favors and contracts. But beyond economics, he presents an alarmingly clear picture of the very real costs to American values and the so-called American way of life. Included in the collection is "The Pretense of Airport Security," where he writes,

The TSA's program serves one political purpose above all others. It routinely abases and humiliates the entire population, rendering us docile and compliant...[T]he entire population without exception is treated as suspected criminals and made to feel like inmates in a concentration camp.

Certainly, the recent deadly shooting of an unarmed man trying desperately to depart an airplane just before takeoff reminds us of our correct role as sheepizens. The robust and repeated federal defense of the TSA was that the marshals were "just doing what they were trained to do" to keep the rest of us safe. Safe and docile, like inmates in a national concentration camp.

Dr. Higgs provides some helpful information for taxpayers, not just on the nature of government accretion after 9-11, but the degree. Did you actually believe that the defense budget was around $430 billion last year? Actually, Higgs provides the real numbers, and it was nearly twice that. Just like every year after 9-11.

Higgs has not written a book suitable for bedtime reading with the children. This stuff is downright frightening, and as the book progresses from the programmatic and systemic realities that serve as pylons for the warfare state, he explores the philosophy and attitudes that inform the current warfare state administration, and the tragic and deadly spawn of these philosophies and attitudes. He explores President Bush's "Faith-Based Foreign Policy" and "Crackpot Realism." In another era, this might be just good fun at the expense of a hapless president. But Higgs carefully builds a bridge to the dark side of our present and past foreign policies, to the lie-based invasion of Iraq. Incidentally, the crackpot realist himself, Mr. Bush, recently admitted publicly that it was indeed a lie-based invasion. True to Higgs' characterization, Bush claimed he would do it all just the same, lies or no lies. Well, of course he would! America is a warfare state, and as Resurgence of the Warfare State shows in a myriad of ways, that's exactly how the current administration and its political and industrial enablers like it.

Perhaps the most painful part of the book is the last two sections that focus on the invasion of Iraq, and the aftermath. The attacks of 9-11 transformed the long held neoconservative dream of a US-controlled Iraq into reality. Although the justifications for the conquering of Iraq were lies, the American media, the Congress, and the people at home were at their most intellectually and emotionally vulnerable after 9-11. Those who had long planned the invasion and the power shift in the Middle East had their "new Pearl Harbor" and they used it. Higgs writes poignantly here about the crimes in Iraq that go unreported in the American media, and in a few invaluable pages the reader is left with a striking sense of the magnitude of pain and agony we have inflicted on average Iraqis.

The book concludes with an assessment on the success of the Iraq war for America, an evaluation of this particular post 9-11 foreign policy. The message throughout Resurgence is that post 9-11 trends and anti-Constitutional tendencies aren't giving us more safety, security, prosperity or freedom. However, Higgs explains that in logical and practical terms, the war in Iraq has been extremely successful and profitable in every way, for the warfare state.

How does Robert Higgs add to the growing cacophony of critiques of government growth in general and the Bush administration specifically? There are three key reasons to read this book, send a few to your dearest friends, and buy one for your favorite teenager. First, it is easy to read, in whole or in parts. His explanations make sense, his historical research is relevant, and his style is to frequently punctuate with a memorable phrase or blazingly insightful observation. Second, while Resurgence is fuel for the libertarian activist, it also works for the conservative aiming to rein in the neoconservative hijack of the Republican Party, or the liberal who is frustrated with the lack of a moral spine in the Democratic Party. For the humanitarian, there is emotional outrage tempered by logic, and for the statistician and economist, there are facts and numbers, presented in a thematically connected and eye-opening way. Third, this book has staying power. Robert Higgs has been infuriatingly accurate in his predictions of just about everything that happened in this country after 9-11. Resurgence, more than anything else I've read, also helps provide the conceptual framework of the current and coming phase of the American experiment - a full-fledged warfare state. While Higgs, as in previous books, offers little in the way of solutions to the problems, or a roadmap for reversal of the warfare state, he has built a house on a rock, and there is a sense that understanding how the warfare state works will be the key to breaking it down, or at least surviving its future collapse.

In an extraordinary way, by gripping the reader in the drama and new governmental directions of the post 9-11 period, Resurgence of the Warfare State is almost a novella. There is a Goliath-like villain with an unavoidable, inevitable, seemingly unstoppable agenda. There is a heroic but lonely protagonist, David-like in his honesty and clear-eyed courage. As with a worthy novella, afterwards we enjoy a bittersweet moment of time-suspended reflection on what we have read, what we have discovered, and the unanswered questions that remain. In Resurgence of the Warfare State, Robert Higgs has provided something very special that is well worth buying, reading, sharing, and re-reading, and talking about with your friends, your neighbors, and your children.

December 20, 2005

Copyright © 2005 LewRockwell.com

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Summer Hawk
Summer Hawk Takes Flight
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once a class assignment, now a favorite
Rather abstract and wandering

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M. Taylor Armstrong-Brown. It's a good name for a journalist. When Taylor moves to the remote town of Hunter's Gap from Philadelphia, she copes by being an impartial observer. She plans on biding her time until she can escape to prep school and college. But, unexpectedly, Taylor finds herself rescuing an orphaned baby hawk and getting to know a boy she'd never imagined being friends with. When she meets the woman who runs the nearby raptor rehabilitation center, Taylor's journalistic reserve begins to break down. As the hawk heals and grows stronger, Taylor is drawn closer to the boy she'd considered a redneck - and to the passionate "Hawk Lady," whose many secrets awaken deeper emotions in Taylor than she understands. Words begin flowing from her pen, but they are not the objective notes of a news reporter. They are the stirrings of a heart taking wing.

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Summer Hawk.......2005-11-21

I think that this Summer Hawk, by Deborah Savage, was extremely well written. From the very start, the book captures and pulls you in.

The main character, M. Taylor Armstrong-Brown, is like any normal teenage girl. She isn't that close to her parents, going to move soon, and has to choose what school she really wants to go to. At the beginning, Taylor thought that she wanted to be a reporter. But to get into this school that she really wanted to, she needed a good grade in English. Unfortunately, she got a C. That wasn't going to get Taylor into the school. But her teacher would raise her grade if she wrote an essay for the paper during her summer. At first, Taylor didn't know what to write about. Then she finds a baby hawk stranded in a tree. Taylor then rushes back to get help, and she meets a quiet boy named Rail, who she used to call `a red neck'. Rail and Taylor together rescue the baby hawk and bring her to the `hawk lady', Rhainnon Jefferies. While Rail helped the hawk, Taylor was recording down everything for her essay. Soon Taylor finds that her world has turned upside down and what she no longer wanted what she used to. She then has to discover what she really wants inside.

I think that this book was made for teenagers, about that same age as Taylor herself. At that age, most people can connect to what is happening to Taylor, one of the reasons this book draws you in. Taylor seems just like any average teenage girl and is so realistic that everything that happens to her is believable. It makes you think that you aren't the only one with problems, and that everyone has them too.

The best part of this book was around then end because Taylor finally figures out what she really wants. Finally she has friends and her mom understands her, and she gets to stay in Hunter's Cap like she wants. Finally Taylor finds the peace that you get when everything is perfect.

This is an excellent book. Once you start reading it, there is no way you can put it down. I recommend this book to all teenagers and even young teens. You won't regret it!

Summer Hawk Takes Flight.......2005-10-03

Quite like a thunderstorm, a tornado, or a hawk's plunge, Summer Hawk by Deborah Savage captures readers from the instant their eyes hit the page.

A teen novel, at first it seems as if Melissa T. Armstrong-Brown's problems are that of every other teen; she's having a bit of trouble at school, she's getting ready to move, and her parents seem distant, or apart from her. It seems as if the novel is going to be ordinary - just like any other teen romance. However, Taylor soon comes across a baby hawk, and from there many different people tie into her life; the quiet boy Rail Bogart, the mysterious "hawk lady" Dr. Rhiannon Jeffries, children from her school, and many more. Taylor's life is suddenly turned upside down with all of these new discoveries, and in them, she has yet to discover herself.

What makes this novel fit the teenage audience the most would have to be that - in watching Taylor discover herself - readers get sucked into her. By the time a reader reaches the fourth chapter, their emotions are bound to Taylor's, and - before they realize what is happening, they are whisked away to that windswept hilling, seeing themselves lay out before them. At least, I'm aware that it happened to me.

The best chapter would have to be the very last chapter - Chapter 19. In this chapter, you see that things are finally going right for Taylor. She finally found herself, she gets over the intense anger that had been locked up inside of her soul, and she is around those she loves. I won't spill what else happens in this chapter - for I want you to read the book - but this book is finally when Taylor - and the reader - feels fine.

This book is excellent. Whether you are a teenager that the directed audience waits for, or an adult looking for a young read, this book will never cease to amaze you. Summer Hawk is certainly a desiring read that - like a windswept hill on a summer's day with a red-tail gliding above you - you will never want to leave.

A favorite.......2005-08-22

I first read this book in my early teens, and enjoyed it so much that I read it completely through in one sitting. I love the style, love the characters, and most of all, love having a book that has left a lot out to make it a better book. As I read the previous reviews, I was surprised. There are more than a few unfavorable ones, which really did catch me off guard. Since I haven't read the book in a while, I sat back and thought about the comments and complaints, trying to receive them with an open mind. As it is, I still can't agree. The book is a favorite 'mood' book for me. When its raining outside and I've finished writing one of my own stories, I love to pick it up and re-read the descriptions of the hawk lady (whose name actually inspired me to research the mythology of the goddess Rhiannon)and Taylor's father. In danger of rambling on I have just one last opinion to give-that as a daughter of a separated, and now divoreced mother, I feel a slight connection to Taylor, and maybe this is why I enjoyed the book so much. It helped me to understand myself.
Oh, and the fact that I am also a female called Taylor didn't hurt things either!

once a class assignment, now a favorite.......2003-12-18

I have had the unexpected pleasure to have Ms. Savage as my professor for a college class. In that regard, my own personal opinion of the book is also judged by how I have come to know the writer. I could go on and on where and how she came up with ideas, but that is not what you want to really know.

In the very beginning I found Taylor to be snobby concerning her views of other classmates and somewhat selfish in trems of her mother,she is a typical teenager. One of the best aspects of the book is how easy it is to watch Taylor progress into a deeper understanding about friendships, family and relationships others have around her. The witness of growth as a reader is easy to relate because there has been a time in all of our lives where we too have gained a new self-awareness. I love the end because there is no happily ever after, just continuing change, which is what life is really about.

I think that the goal of any writer is to ensure that there is something worth writing about. It doesn't matter what age you are when you this book, it is just about understanding yourself a little bit more. I love this book and I think that if you give it half a chance and an open mind you will too.

Rather abstract and wandering.......1999-10-10

This is the first book by Savage I have read. Much of this book is rather poetic and ethereal, which appeals to me. Overall though, Savage's hinting at things and heavy innuendos were unfulfilling and confusing, rather than suspenseful. The stereotyping of the community was a bit heavyhanded as well.

Character developement was fairly good, but I wondered about what would happen to a number of the supporting cast. Mom's character is never fully understood. If Melissa was so supportive of her mom, how come we never got to know her?

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This is such a worthwhile book. It will especially appeal to people who love falcons.

nicely printed.......1998-08-18

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An evocative voice from the sixties.......2002-11-08

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The North American Breeding Survey comprises a network of regularly censussed, road-based survey routes and constitutes the most comprehensive set of data on the relative abundance and population trends of these birds during the summer months. In this book, Jeff and Amy Price and Sam Droege have used these data to create detailed, computer-generated maps showing the relative abundance of 449 species that summer in the contiguous United States and southern Canada. Tabular information on distribution hotspots for these, and an additional 50 species too local in occurrence to map effectively, are also presented. The maps provide a baseline for future and more regionally based studies. Supporting chapters provide details on the survey methodology, the mapping procedures used, and some current concerns in North American bird conservation. The maps provide an unprecedented level of information, and far surpass the general picture given by distribution maps in field guides. For the first time, detailed occurrence and relative abundance of each species is provided. This is of great use to birders seeking to locate species of bird new to them, but also to everyone with an interest in and concern for, the health of North American bird populations. Ecologists, land managers, conservation agencies, environmental consultants, and land use planners will all benefit from this book.

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Commercial Poultry Nutrition has been widely accepted as a standard around the world for practical application of feeding systems, in all parts of the poultry industry. This second edition is a major rewrite of the original publication, and in addition to updating all relevant data has been expanded by some 30%.

There is now increased emphasis on description of major and alternate feed ingredients together with details of various ingredient quality control procedures. In dealing with nutrition of meat birds there is emphasis on economics of alternate feeding systems together with details of feed program choice as it affects carcass meat yield and quality.

There are exclusive chapters on nutrition and feeding of both immature and adult egg layers with increased emphasis on both white and brown egg birds. Details of manipulating egg composition are discussed in relation to human health and value-added marketing. The nutritional strategy for all classes of breeding stock are described in terms of egg production, hatchability and also offspring viability and quality. Other specialist sections detail nutrient requirements and feeding programs for turkeys, waterfowl, game birds and ratites.

The authors have produced a unique description of the practical application of nutritional strategies for commercial poultry producers. This new book will be of interest to nutritionists, veterinarians and other senior professionals involved in commercial poultry production.

Customer Reviews:

A Must for Anyone Putting Together Poultry Rations.......2000-12-11

A lot of poultrykeepers feel the temptation to invent their own chicken feed blend. Doing this successfully requires quite a bit of knowlege, and this book provides it. It's quite accessible to the interested layman, though it assumes you already know something about nutrition (for example, it doesn't explain what amino acids are or why you'd care).

Not as exhaustive as Ewing's massive and long-out-of-print POULTRY NUTRITION, but it's more up-to-date and far easier to use.

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