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Meatpacking Books
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The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as meatpacking)
avg rating 3.78 — 156,082 ratings — published 1906
Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America (Histories of Economic Life)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 3.79 — 254 ratings — published 2019
Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 3.15 — 84 ratings — published 2010
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,633 ratings — published 1991
Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 4.20 — 49 ratings — published 2019
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,735 ratings — published 2001
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,908 ratings — published 2009
Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest (Studies in Rural Culture)
by (shelved 1 time as meatpacking)
avg rating 3.71 — 35 ratings — published 1998
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
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
“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].”
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“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”
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
