Meatpacking Books

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The Jungle The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as meatpacking)
avg rating 3.78 — 153,198 ratings — published 1906
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Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 3.16 — 82 ratings — published 2010
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,537 ratings — published 1991
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Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 4.24 — 45 ratings — published 2019
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,368 ratings — published 2001
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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 3.69 — 6,865 ratings — published 2009
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Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest (Studies in Rural Culture) Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest (Studies in Rural Culture)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 3.76 — 33 ratings — published 1998
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Any Way You Cut It: Meat Processing and Small-Town America Any Way You Cut It: Meat Processing and Small-Town America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 1995
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Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 3.58 — 45 ratings — published 2003
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Michael Pollan
“What gets a steer from 80 to 1100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous quantities of corn, protein and fat supplements, and an arsenal of new drugs.”
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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