In meat we trust [electronic resource] : an unexpected history of carnivore America / Maureen Ogle.
2013
TX371 .O39 2013eb
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In meat we trust [electronic resource] : an unexpected history of carnivore America / Maureen Ogle.
Author
Ogle, Maureen.
ISBN
9780544103139 electronic book
9780151013401
9780151013401
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (387 pages)
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TX371 .O39 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
664/.9
Summary
This book relates the untold story of how meat made America. The moment European settlers arrived in North America, they began transforming the land into a meat-eater's paradise. Long before revolution turned colonies into nation, Americans were eating meat on a scale the Old World could neither imagine nor provide: an average European was lucky to see meat once a week, while even a poor American man put away about two hundred pounds a year. Here the author guides us from that colonial paradise through the urban meat-making factories of the nineteenth century to the hyperefficient packing plants of the late twentieth century. From Swift and Armour to Tyson, Cargill, and ConAgra. From the 1880s cattle bonanza to 1980s feedlots. From agribusiness to today's "local" meat suppliers and organic countercuisine. Along the way, she explains how Americans' carnivorous demands shaped urban landscapes, Midwestern prairies, and Western ranges, and how the American system of meat making became a source of both pride and controversy. -- From book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Carnivore America
"We Are Here to Make Money"
The (High) Price of Success
Factories, Farmers, and Chickens
"How Can We Go Wrong?"
The Vacuum at the Top
The Doubters' Crusade
Utopian Visions, Red Tape Reality.
"We Are Here to Make Money"
The (High) Price of Success
Factories, Farmers, and Chickens
"How Can We Go Wrong?"
The Vacuum at the Top
The Doubters' Crusade
Utopian Visions, Red Tape Reality.