Book ID: CBB001422251

In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America (2013)

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Ogle, Maureen (Author)


Houghton Mifflin Harcourt


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xiii + 368 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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.

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Review Wallach, Jennifer Jensen (2015) Review of "In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America". Agricultural History (pp. 302-303). unapi

Review Wallach, Jennifer Jensen (2015) Review of "In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America". Agricultural History (pp. 302-303). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jönsson, Erik
Warren, Wilson J.
McCrow-Young, Ally
John Hoenig
Linné, Tobias
Kirchhelle, Claas
Concepts
Food industry and trade
Food science; food technology
Food and foods
Agriculture
Meat industry and trade
Science and culture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Europe
Lesotho
England
West Germany
Romania
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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