The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food

The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business

An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industryâ€”a shocking, in-depth report every American should read.

The biggest takeover in American business that youâ€™ve n ever heard of

The American supermarket seems to represent the best in America: abundance, freedom, choice. But that turns out to be an illusion. The rotisserie chicken, the pepperoni, the cordon bleu, the frozen pot pie, and the bacon virtually all come from four companies.

In The Meat Racket, investigative reporter Christopher Leonard delivers the first-ever account of how a handful of companies have seized the nationâ€™s meat supply. He shows how they built a system that puts farmers on the edge of bankruptcy, charges high prices to consumers, and returns the industry to the shape it had in the 1900s before the meat monopolists were broken up. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the greatest capitalist country in the world has an oligarchy controlling much of the food we eat and a high-tech sharecropping system to make that possible.

Forty years ago, more than thirty-six companies produced half of all the chicken Americans ate. Now there are only three that make that amount, and they control every aspect of the process, from the egg to the chicken to the chicken nugget. These companies are even able to raise meat prices for consumers while pushing down the price they pay to farmers. And tragically, big business and politics have derailed efforts to change the system.

We know that it takes big companies to bring meat to the American table. What The Meat Racket shows is that this industrial system is rigged against all of us. In that sense, Leonard has exposed our heartlandâ€™s biggest scandal.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber FLBOOKSTOREBL9781451645811
ReleaseDate 2014-02-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451645811

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	FLBOOKSTOREBL9781451645811
ReleaseDate	2014-02-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451645811

The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business

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