| Author |
Ogle, Maureen, author.
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| Publication |
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2013]
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| Description |
xiii, 368 pages ; 24 cm |
| Call # |
664.9 O |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-358) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
The untold story of how meat made America. [Even in] the colonies, Americans were eating meat on a scale the Old World could neither imagine nor provide. The book describes 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, 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 publisher description. |
| Subject |
Meat -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Meat industry and trade -- United States.
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Food preferences -- United States.
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Food preferences. (OCoLC)fst00930981
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Meat industry and trade. (OCoLC)fst01013271
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Meat -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01013247
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155 |
| ISBN |
9780151013401 (hardback) |
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0151013403 (hardback) |
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