| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
370 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-351) and index. |
| Contents |
How Jerry Yandell lost the farm (2003-2004) -- The Eden crash (1929-1958) -- Expand or expire (1960-1967) -- The industrial animal (1970-1995) -- Cage match (2004-2012) -- Pig cities (1973-1994) -- The next generation (1995-2006) -- Squeal (1996-2011) -- Pulling the noose(2011) -- The food dictatorship (1994-2006) -- The transition team (2007-2011) -- Street fight (2010-2011) -- Don's horizon (2011-2012). |
| Summary |
"In The Meat Racket, investigative reporter Christopher Leonard delivers the first-ever account of how a handful of companies have seized the nation's meat supply. He shows how they built a system that puts farmers on the edge of bankruptcy, charges high prices to consumers, and returns the industry to the shape it had in the 1900s before the meat monopolists were broken up. At the dawn of the 21st century, the greatest capitalist country in the world has an oligarchy controlling much of the food we eat and a high-tech sharecropping system to make that possible. These companies are even able to raise meat prices for consumers while pushing down the price they pay to farmers. We know that it takes big companies to bring meat to the American table. What The Meat Racket shows is that this industrial system is rigged against all of us." -- From publisher description. |
| Language |
Text in English. |
| Subject |
Meat industry and trade -- United States.
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Tyson (Firm)
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Investigative reporting.
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| ISBN |
9781451645811 (hardcover) |
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1451645813 |
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