Every time people choose intensively reared meat over pasture fed, organic or free-range they’re helping to fuel the destruction of forests and causing the loss of wildlife, such as the Sumatran elephant and the African penguin as well as wildlife closer to home such as hedgehogs and farmland birds. “However, few people are aware that their own daily food choices also have a huge impact on other wildlife thousands of miles away. Philip Lymbery says: “The BBC Series Blue Planet II has triggered a huge public interest in the natural world and the impact that our own shopping choices – for example, buying drinks in plastic bottles – can have on marine life.
In intensive farms, pigs and cattle are fed crops such as corn, soya or palm and as forests are felled in places like the Amazon and Sumatra to grow them, wildlife gets squeezed out. This incredible journey reveals how taking farm animals off pasture and confining them in ‘factory’ farms is draining the world’s natural resources and wiping out wildlife. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.Launched to mark the publication in paperback of Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were (Bloomsbury) on 8 March, the film follows Philip Lymbery, Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming, from the rainforests of the Amazon to the Midwest plains of America to the palm plantations of Sumatra and the Po Valley in Italy.
King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Some of King's recent bestsellers are Fairy Tale, Billy Summers and If It Bleeds.Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures, TV series and streamed events, including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.
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