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The chain

farm, factory, and the fate of our food

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Ted Genoways
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An edition of The chain (2014)

The chain

farm, factory, and the fate of our food

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Ted Genoways uses the story of Hormel Foods and soaring recession-era demand for its most famous product, Spam, to probe the state of the meatpacking industry, including the expansion of agribusiness and the effects of immigrant labor on Middle America.

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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Pages
305

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Subjects
Factory farms, Industrial safety, Hormel Foods Corporation, Meat industry and trade, Food processing plants, New York Times reviewed
Places
United States

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The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food
Oct 20, 2015, Harper Paperbacks
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Cover of: Chain
Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food
2014, HarperCollins Publishers
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The chain: farm, factory, and the fate of our food
2014, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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Table of Contents

Pt. 1. The brain machine
Have a cup of coffee and pray
Alter egos
pt. 2. Little Mexico
They threw me away like trash
This land is not your land
pt. 3. From seed to slaughter
Don't be afraid to hurt them
Ag gag
pt. 4. I thought it was fishy
You are not welcome
Brother, are you okay?
pt. 5. A clean bill of health
Lay of the land
Water works
pt. 6. The city of no
Inspection.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index.

Other Titles
Farm factory

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.7/664920973
Library of Congress
HD9415 .G46 2014, HD9415.G46 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 305 pages
Number of pages
305

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27172850M
ISBN 10
006228875X
ISBN 13
9780062288752
LCCN
2014019018
OCLC/WorldCat
869267284
Amazon ID (ASIN)

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