| Description |
xiii, 368 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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?" -- Vacuum at the Top -- Doubters' Crusade -- Utopian Visions, Red Tape Reality. |
| Summary |
This book relates the untold story of how meat made America. The moment European settlers arrived in North America, they began transforming the land into a meat-eater's paradise. Long before revolution turned colonies into nation, Americans were eating meat on a scale the Old World could neither imagine nor provide: an average European was lucky to see meat once a week, while even a poor American man put away about two hundred pounds a year. Here the author guides us from that colonial paradise 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, she explains how 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 book jacket. |
| Subject |
Meat -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Meat -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Meat. |
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Meat industry and trade -- United States.
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Meat industry and trade. |
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Food preferences -- United States.
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Food preferences. |
| ISBN |
9780151013401 (hardback) |
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0151013403 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
40022949399 |
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