Meatpacking


The Jungle
Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America (Histories of Economic Life)
Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest (Studies in Rural Culture)
Any Way You Cut It: Meat Processing and Small-Town America
Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America
Michael Pollan
A mere four giant meatpacking companies (Tyson subsidiary IBP, Cargill subsidiary Excel, Swift & Company, and National) now slaughter and market four of every five beef cattle born in this country
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan
It was the same industrial logic- protein is protein- that made feeding rendered cow parts back to cows seem like a sensible thing to do, until scientists figured out that this practice was spreading BSE [mad cow disease].
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

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