The Meat Racket

An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industry a shocking, in depth report every American should read.The biggest takeover in American business that you 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 nation 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, 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 heartland s biggest scandal. Free Download The Meat Racket by Christopher Leonard For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Consumers pay , farmers make less, and corporations in the middle grab a windfall the bank extended the mortgages and car loans to the lower income workers at Tyson s plant It provided farm loans to the company s chicken farmers The plant workers never really jumped an income bracket The farmers never really left their cycle of indebtedness People might complain, but there really wasn t an alternative That pretty much sums up the story of The Meat Racket, a remarkably well written, Consumers pay , farmers make less, and corporations in the middle grab a windfall the bank extended the mortgages and car loans to the lower income workers at Tyson s plant It provided farm loans to the company s chicken farmers The plant workers never really jumped an income bracket The farmers ...Fast Food Nation made many people aware of the dangers of our current food system to consumers The Meat Racket uncovers and explains the development of monopoly in the American meat industry that has largely destroyed the independent family farm level control of meat production Through careful and thorough research, Leonard is able to explain how a few large companies, led by Tyson in the poultry industry and followed by Smithland and a few others in the pork and beef industries, have entrappe Fast Food Nation made many people aware of the dangers of our current food system to consumers The Meat Racket uncovers and explains the development of monopoly in the American meat industry that has largely destroyed the independent family farm level control of meat production Through careful and thorough research, Leonard is able to explain how a few large companies, led by Tyson in the poultry industry and followed by Smithland and a few others in the pork and beef industries, have entrapped farmers into contract farming that makes them basically powerless employees in vertically integrated production The meat we buy at the grocery store may have labels that imply different companies produce and market it, but, in fact, most of the meat we eat is produc...Christopher Leonard certainly did his homework This book is also extremely well written It is obvious that Leonard is intelligent I learned a lot while reading this book and went over a lot that I already know.I know that Tyson owned chickens, but I guess I never really thought about pigs and cows in that area I mean I did, but I didn t think there were Tyson owned, but I really wasn t surprised at all Tyson is thi...5 stars for fine business journalism.Every person who lives in America and buys foods and pays taxes should read this excellent piece of investigative business journalism It introduces you to members and former members of the disappearing breed known as independent farmers that became producers and the tycoons that took over hatchery and meatpacking operations and transformed the competitive open market system for selling farmed animals into an anti competitive, super high production contra 5 stars for fine business journalism.Every person who lives in America and buys foods and pays taxes should read this excellent piece of investigative business journalism It introduces you to members and former members of the disappearing breed known as independent farmers that became producers and the tycoons that took over hatchery and meatpacking operations and transformed the competitive open market system for selling farmed animals into an anti competitive, super high production contract system in which a handful of vertica...We all like meat but don t want to think about where it comes from And I m kind of fine with that Presumably regulation well enforced protects animals from undue cruelty So we remain complicitly sheltered For the alternative, expensive and rare meat, study dietary habits of the Middle Ages I have.But The Meat Racket blows apart our happy myths in its chronicling of the human cost of cheap, plenti...Non fiction book all about how Tyson s Food chicken conglomerate took over the chicken business in America Tyson s was one of the main players perhaps THE main player that made factory farming A Thing.Make no mistake this is a non fiction book about chicken factory farming, but I found it completely fascinating Unlike other writings on this topic, it did not focus on the ethics and or cruelty of the practice it focused on the finance and economics aspects.Before factory farming existed i Non fiction book all about how Tyson s Food chicken conglomerate took over the chicken business in America Tyson s was one of the main players perhaps THE main player that made factory farming A Thing.Make no mistake this is a non fiction book about chicken factory farming, but I found it completely fascinating Unlike other writings on this t...If you ve ever thought about becoming a vegetarian, this book will give you the push you need I ve long known about the cruel and inhumane treatment given many of the animals that are our food What I didn t realize was why that was, and how it came to be Most of it can be laid at the feet of one family the Tysons.It begin...Extremely torn I think that this an important subject I like the author s writing style I admire the compassion that he has for all of the parties involved whether farmer or meat conglomerate exec and I respect the amount of research undertaken to write this book but I wish there weremeat here This would have made a compelling magazine expose but because there s not enough here to support an entire book, it s quite redundant And the title is misleading If you are going to call Extremely torn I think that this an important subject I like the author s writing style I admire the compassion that he has for all of the parties involved whether farmer or meat...what was most valuable for me was this book s focus on rural America when we hear of the big meat companies in the news, it seems they are mostly being attacked from a public health perspective, e.g their mismanagement of animal waste, overuse of antibiotics, etc but it s equally important to get a sense of what industry consolidation has done to the rural economy and its negative outcomes for low income rural populations the contract farming system, the tournament method for farmer pay, and what was most valuable for me was this book s focus on rural America when we hear of the big meat companies in the news, it seems they are mostly being attacked from a public health perspective, e.g their mismanagement of animal waste, overuse of antibiotics, etc but it s equally important to get a sense of what industry consolidation has done to the rural economy and its negative outcomes for low income rural populations the contract farming system, the tournament method for farmer pay, and the generally authoritarian position the companies take against farmers are all important things to be aware of, and this book covers them well.also interesting was the story of corporate consolidation, as illustrated by Tyson, and the ...I was already the choir for The Meat Racket in regards to the general overblown nature of the meat industry, but this book goes far beyond that.This is a well researched tale with elegant, simple prose that brings to life just how severely the uber consolidation of an industry has affected every player in it The historical perspective is so important here to realize just why companies like Tyson do what they do why their mottos must be expand or expire Yes, greed is invo...

• English
• 04 September 2018
Christopher Leonard
• Hardcover
• 384 pages
• 1451645813
• Christopher Leonard
• The Meat Racket