Title
The meat racket : the secret takeover of America's food business / Christopher Leonard.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781451645811 hardcover
1451645813 hardcover
Imprint
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Language
English
Language Note
Text in English.
Description
370 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HD9415 .L46 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.7/636500973
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-351) and index.
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 (2010
2012)
Pig cities (1973-1994)
The next generation (1996-2000)
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).
