The Meat You Eat

How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply

Amazon Book Description

Author: Ken Midkiff
Foreword by Wendell Berry

Sierra Club Director Ken Midkiff delves into the murky world of American meat production ith the threat of animal-borne diseases looming on the horizon, now more than ever we need to look hard at what we eat. In this eye-opening book, Sierra Club Director Ken Midkiff exposes the dangers posed by corporate control of agribusiness:

dangers to our health,
dangers to the health of the nation's economy
dangers to national security,
dangers to the environment.
The Meat You Eat explores the current practices of the corporations taking over the raising and slaughtering of farm animals (and farmed fish, such as salmon). Midkiff reveals the true cost of agribusiness, balan-cing startling truths with reflections on how America could eat better. Rather than advocate a vegan or vegetarian diet, Midkiff argues that using and supporting local farmers will improve the quality of life for us all, as well as for the animals whose meat we eat. Hailed by The New York Times Books Review as the 'great moral essayist of our day,' this book is entertaining, informative, and a ringing call to arms.

Current Affairs 0-312-32535-5 $23.95 $34.95 Canadian 51/2" x 81/4" / 288 pages Includes 5-10 line-graphs throughout May

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References To Chicken

1-10 of 69 pages with references to chicken:

1. on Page 62:
"... A Pig's Life What is it like inside Big Pig? The lives of the animals resemble those of chickens, dairy cows, or steer-that is, ..."
2. on Page 65:
"... 81G CHICKEN AND 81G EGG Big Chicken "JOHN SMITH," A CONTRACT GROWER WHO WAS ALSO A state legislator, ..."
3. on Page 66:
"... Then he learned that more money was to be made by delivering chickens to Kansas City and St. Louis and eventually to Chicago and other northern cities. ..."
4. on Page 67:
"... BIG CHICKEN AND BIG EGG 67 pleasant land with lots of hills, trees, wild animals, and clear flowing streams and no way ..."
5. on Page 68:
"... The representatives of Big Chicken speak in glowing terms of the benefits to the growers. Growers soon discover reality is considerably less lustrous. ..."
6. on Page 69:
"... BIG CHICKEN AND BIG EGG 69 waking moment is devoted to taking care of the chickens. Moreover, the growers have literally bet ..."
7. on Page 70:
"... to all of these contractual difficulties, the grower is at the mercy of the company, which determines the number of chickens it wants delivered to ..."
8. on Page 71:
"... BIG CHICKEN AND BIG EGG 71 have historically been such an independent lot, it is relatively safe to assume that no one ..."
9. on Page 72:
"... Every effort by the company and the grower goes toward making every chicken reach a weight of 2.5 to 5 lbs within that six-to- seven-week period. Aggressive chickens are debeaked to avoid injuries ..."
10. on Page 73:
"... BIG CHICKEN AND BIG EGG hens to keep eating. The climate is controlled. In winter months, large curtains are lowered to ..."

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References to Company

1-10 of 100 pages with references to company:

1. on Page 44:
"... Of course, the company doesn't mind this because it doesn't lower the price of meat at all. But, it hurts me to have to ..."
2. on Page 45:
"... BIG PIG 45 know that sound. That's the sound of a hurting hog, and it hurts me. "The company just doesn't care. They don't care if their stink is forcing us to shut up our house. ..."
3. on Page 46:
"... This big company has deprived me of clean air, clean water, peace, and solitude. My life has been turned upside down." Rolf and ..."
4. on Page 47:
"... While the company will have a wastewater treatment plant, these are notoriously vulnerable to upsets, as they are termed, occasions when the bacteriological ..."
5. on Page 53:
"... BIG PIG 53 focused on agribusiness and the agribusiness industry. Large agribusiness companies recruit eager agriculture graduates. ..."
6. on Page 56:
"... These companies boast about "vertical integration ," claiming that controlling the entire process, from feed mill to retail product, helps maintain quality ..."
7. on Page 57:
"... 57 also bland to the point of being tasteless, in addition to being laced with pathogens resistant to antibiotics. Each company controls every aspect of hog production. ..."
8. on Page 58:
"... the magic size at the same time. These companies use three different business models: 1. The company owns and operates it all. ..."
9. on Page 60:
"... eastern plains of Colorado, North Dakota, and the prairie provinces of Canada have all been targeted by the hog agribusiness companies as good places to locate hog operations. ..."
10. on Page 61:
"... These were not, as the hog companies like to claim, "move- ins"-city dwellers who had moved to the country-but rather old-time farmers and longtime rural ..."

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About the Author

Ken Midkiff is the Sierra Club Clean Water Campaign Director. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Living on Earth and All Things Considered. A leading expert on the subject of agribusiness and sustainable agriculture, he lives in Columbia, Missouri.

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